SOC 808 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: List Of French Cheeses, Tacit Knowledge, Tv Dinner
30 Sep 2017
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Week 3- food culture & identity: you are what you eat. Chapter 3: you are what you eat: enjoying and transforming food culture. Introduction culture shapes how we eat our culture tells us how meals are prepared, what foods are enjoyable, and which are taboo. Foodscape a concept that captures the ways we understand food consumption as well as our relationship to the material reality of food systems. 2 ideas about good foods are also shaped by ethnic backgrounds, social class, family socialization and gender. French cheese may grow up to feel comfortable and natural in a variety of cosmopolitan food settings allowing her to travel around the world and feel comfortable with ordering food with her employers in an expensive restaurant. Habitus refers to habits, dispositions, lifestyles of a social group acquired through everyday practice. We learn what to eat, how to eat, internalize this knowledge, and then define ourselves and our lifestyle with them.
