SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Asthma, Rheumatism
17 Feb 2015
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Enjoying (and transforming) food culture: our culture" tells us how meals are pre pared, what foods are enjoyable, and what foods are taboo, what is culture, culture refers to things like knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that circulate in a group or society, consciously passed on from one generation to the next through parenting and education, unconsciously absorbed and reproduced through things like everyday practices, conversations, actions, popular culture, and the media. Individuals can pick elements that sustain habitual behaviours (i. e. cooking from an old family recipe) or can select tools to explore new ways of acting in the world (i. e. trying a new cuisine: not only do people use culture, but culture in turn uses people, application of the idea to food shows how people have some agency about what they eat, culinary tastes and ideas about good" food are also influenced by broader structural forces(such as ethnic background, social class, family socialization, and gender )
