SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Slow Cooker, Trans Fat, Nutritionism

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

Document Summary

Informal opportunity for you to get your participation mark. Readings: chapter 9 beagan and chapman; and szabo , 2011. By the end of this module, you should be able to: De ne discourse and explain how it relates to notions of healthy eating. List the social structures that in uence healthy diets beyond an individualistic understanding of healthy eating . Understand how household characteristics such as employment, demographics and illness relate to eating habits. Describe how healthy eating motivations differ based on age/life stage and ethno-racial background. Discourse : a way of understanding a phenomenon or an issue that circulates through a society and is enacted through everyday practices (koc et al. , p. 383). Healthy eating" discourse: is a particular way of understanding healthy eating that circulates through society and is reproduced (and sometimes resisted) through people"s eating practices. Trends change with time - the kind of ideas that prevail at a particular time.