SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Food Studies, Food Systems, Food Desert

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Donna Appavoo

Document Summary

Foodie : aesthetically appreciating and prioritizing culinary pleasures in daily life, enjoying the taste and experience of food, a cultural phenomenon that"s currently occurring. Our food system is not the best that we can do, thinking about how we can change it to have better outcomes: e. g. Factors that influence choice : comfort/appealing, cost, lifestyle/compromise, convenient. *influence wasn"t one reason by class (test: cost, nutritional/health benefits. Food culture & identity: biological, micro: individual, meso: community, macro: political economic relations. Food, company and commensality: an identity badge, a product, a political tool, an object of emotions, a ritual object, a symbol. The meso level: community food systems: networks of individuals and organizations public, private, and non-profit. The macro level: food and political economic relations. Corn as an example: during the early 20th century, depression and war resulted in food shortages in north.