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Keep the point of the focus group in mind. Setting and refreshments [have refreshments either before or after] Agenda [show the participants; might hav

Products that go through very little levels of transformation such as fluid milk, eggs, and flour and tomato paste have thin profit margins. Some are s

Durkheim culture is its own system, including psychological/economic factors. Cultural life of man is an effect of his material & economic activity. Pr

Appropriate to the study of attributes and behaviours best understood in their natural settings & well suited for study of social processes over time.

Eu-usa biotech committee said in 2000 there is a lack of substantial scientific evidence and data on this issue. Recent article in science [2000] argue

Final = 45-50 multiple choice questions, 15-20 marks in written questions (3-5 questions sort of essayish more paragraph), 60-70 marks total, bring a c

Technologies for food production don"t exist in the abstract-we must speak about them in context. In context means an enveloping structure that has soc

A measure of dispersion of a set of data around the mean. Variance equals the average of the sum of all the squared deviations of the sample. Deviation

Central contradiction: degradation of diets amid unprecedented cornucopia of healthy foodstuffs presently available to many. Argument: spatial coloniza

Greek, judeo-christian ethics and animals: inferior, subordinate to humans. Capitalistic era: animals as property, commodification of animals, factory

Numerical representation and manipulation of observations for the purpose of describing and explaining the phenomena that those observations reflect. C

Send out a letter to ppl, get them to fill it out and send it back. Can also be ones you have ppl sit w/researcher present [i. e. handing out surveys i

Select a sample of respondents and give them a standardized questionnaire. Best method for collecting original data for describing a population too lar

Almost of all energy in american agriculture goes to livestock production for meat. Government uses tax dollars to pay for animal feed, irrigation, pes

Can be found in drinking water and food and air. Pesticides are toxic chemicals [most can cause cancer, birth defects, changes in genetic material] Gro

Safe levels for only 100 of 250-300 base chemicals. Synergistic effect is the effect that these pesticides do to the products they are used on. Many co

The land ethic no ethic dealing w/man s relation to land & animals & plants. Land relations are economic, entailing privileges but not obligations. Ind

Greek, judeo-christian ethics and animals: inferior, subordinate to humans. Capitalistic era: animals as property, commodification of animals, factory

Methods of studying social behaviour w/out affecting it. 3 types: analysis of exiting statistics, content analysis, historical/comparative research. Co

Mostly used in studies where ppl are the object of analysis. Statements can sometimes summarize the attitudes of the respondent. Using both in a questi

Humans, food and other animals: the vegetarian option. What, when, where we eat all decisions driven by complex motives [i. e. biological such as hunge

Food insecurity strips away the positive social, cultural, and symbolic aspects of food and eating, substitution them w/anxiety, shame, isolation, depr

European style of agriculture brought to canada & australia was designed to provide cheap staples to an industrializing britain [primary production had

Setting is parallel to the yellow wallpaper [home setting] Sense of being chained down [unlucky, need money] sense of claustrophobia. Cold and forced,

Norms that describe what"s ethical and what"s not. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential . First document that advocated v

2 forms: (1) issue a call for volunteers [i. e. medical research-advertise for potential subjects i. e. Niu and contact them to take part in a study of

Reduction of barriers to movement of capital and trading of goods. Moving the state out of the economy-privatising all public enterprises [markets are

Generalizing from a sample to a large population is probability sampling [involves random selection] Probability sampling is selecting a random sample

Well suited to research projects involving relatively limited and well-defined concepts and propositions. Appropriate for hypothesis testing, the study

Generalizing from a sample to a large population is probability sampling [involves random selection] Probability sampling is selecting a random sample

Well suited to research projects involving relatively limited and well-defined concepts and propositions. Appropriate for hypothesis testing, the study

Food retailers: the new masters of the food system. Emergence of the modern food-retail business: chain stores and supermarkets. Marion argues there ar

Food retailers: the real power in the agro-food complex. [buyers are retailers (grocery stores) and sellers are processors-> they sell to the retailers

Misogyny (john and alison)-describes her as young and wild [only 18] he keeps her close. Jalous he was, and heeld hire narwe in cage [keeps her caged u

Demise of fresh potato producers [why most food in grocery stores isn t from canada] Disadvantages to fresh farmers [prices offered lower than cost] ad

1367 became a member of edward iii s court. 1374 worked in customs for the city of london. Survived black death and peasant revolt, served in the early

Emerged in usa, romanticised vision of small town/farms (early rural sociology) Intellectual focus key institutions of rural society (religion, health

The role of farmers parties: a new form of power. Most progressive farm leaders of the province set out to build a unified/broadly based farm organizat

In a scatterplot one axis is used to represent each of the variables, and the data are plotted as points on the graph. Some plots don"t have clear expl