SOC 808- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Importance of food food is not just sustenance but carries a diverse list of social and cultural meanings in our lives. Sustenance a symbol, a product, a ritual object, an identity badge, a object of guilt, a political tool, even a kind of money . Need for energy, heritage and culture, enjoyment, satisfaction, comfort, social interaction. Paul rozin food is fundamental, fun, frightening, and far-reaching eating is a profoundly transformational act (intimate exchange of the environment and self) eating is an intimate exchange between the environment and the self. Multiple forces shape out food preferences: availability, influence from parents, peers, teachers, and the media (rozin, 1999) What makes things disgusting to eat? food disgusts are not simply centered on the sensory aspects of a food, but on knowledge of its nature or origin. Leon kass hungry soul great paradox of eating. Great paradox of eating: to preserve their life and form necessarily destroy life and form (kass, 1994:12)
