SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Slow Food, Sociology Of Culture, Media Culture
6 Feb 2017
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Chapter 3: you are what you eat-transforming food culture. Our culture tells us how meals are prepared, what foods to enjoyable and which are taboo. Food culture: culture affect the way we eat. Foodscape: a concept that refers to the physical reality of food and food production. Culture: human processes of meaning making generating artifacts, categories, norms, values, practices, rituals, symbols, worldview, ideas, ideologies and discourses. A key phrase is meaning-making: how social interactions convey meaning and how we interpret meaning. Food scholars interested in culture are interested in the meaning of different food choices, habits, restrictions and policies. Moral failing of fatness, moral pride in willpower. Consumer culture examined by cultural sociology and consumer studies. Food scholars have documented how political-economic and institutional forces ( ex markets, transnational, corporations and global brand) control key parts of the food system.
