SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Food Policy, Technological Utopianism, Food Security
6 Dec 2014
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Social problems hunger and poverty (shifting focus from food supply to access: emergence of diet related health and environment impact of food system on human and environmental health. Food involves many aspects of human life and social relations: source of nutrition, symbol, commodity, ritual acts, object of pleasure, anxiety, or fear o, marker of class and ethnic identity, political tool. Food studies represent a new interdisciplinary perspectives in social sciences and humanities forming linkages and interconnections among food related issues. Interdisciplinary describing a field of study that combines two or more disciplines into single discipline o. System perspective benefits from rich methodological and analytical insights offered by various disciplines: historically specific web of social relations, processes, structures and institutional arrangements that cover human interactions with nature and with other humans. Emerging field food studies can be difficult to define: covers study of food, cooking, and eating from a social science and humanities.
