SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Food Security, Post-Structuralism, Food Studies

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Donna Appavoo

Document Summary

Food studies: interdisciplinary perspective in social sciences and: study of social relations, processes, structures, institutional humanities arrangements that cover human interactions with nature and with other humans involving production, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food. Understand some of the analytical challenges in defining the disciplinary boundaries of food studies. Neglect of food studies due to classical dualism of mind over body, separate spheres of consumption (female) and production (male), technological utopianism, distancing from nature and tradition. Analysis of food consumption limited to study of negative pathologies of malnutrition and hunger rather than positive features. Recent introduction of gendered and feminist perspective. Focus on food for reasons related to other research agendas. An interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach: historical, cultural, sociological, post-modern, post-structuralist. Describe methodological triangulation by using multiple data gathering techniques. Mixed-methods approach to increase validity: if different research methods produce similar results, results are more accurate.