The sociology of food : eating and the place of food in society /
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| Author / Creator: | Poulain, Jean-Pierre, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Sociologies de l'alimentation. English |
| Imprint: | London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017] ©2017 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12646531 |
Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Preface; By the same author; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 Permanent and changing aspects in modern eating practices; Chapter 1 The globalization of the food supply: Delocalization and relocalization; 1 Food becomes internationalized-through regional specialties; 2 Local food cultures as champions of identity; 3 From our rediscovered regions to the realm of the exotic; 4 From massification to intermixing
- Chapter 2 Between the domestic and the economic spheres: The ebb and flow of culinary activity1 The industrialization of the food supply; 2 Semi-prepared foods and cooking for pleasure; 3 The restaurant and catering sector; 4 The eater, the restaurant system, and choice; 5 Retirement, or the return to the domestic sphere; Chapter 3 The evolution of eating practices; 1 The theory of gastro-anomie and related debates; 2 The enduring class system; 3 Changes in eating practices; 4 The discrepancy between norms and practices
- 5 From anomie to a crisis of legitimacy for the normative system6 Overabundance and the new poverty; Chapter 4 From food risks and food safety to anxiety management; 1 The misunderstanding of quality; 2 Risk and modern societies; 3 Risk: The experts' view, the public's view; 4 Risk as a constant aspect of human food consumption; 5 From democratic risk management to the social reconstruction of food; Chapter 5 Obesity and the medicalization of everyday food consumption; 1 Obesity and socioeconomic status; 2 The development of obesity and modern eating practices
- 3 Is obesity a social construct?4 The dangers of a public health discourse on weight loss; Part 2 From sociological interest in food to sociologies of food; Chapter 6 The major socio-anthropological movements and their encounters with the "food social fact"; 1 The functionalist perspective; 2 The perspective of the anthropology of techniques; 3 The culturalist perspective; 4 The structuralist perspective; 5 Sociological perspectives on food; Chapter 7 Epistemological obstacles; 1 "Grub": A second-rate subject?
- 2 The exclusive nature of the social fact and the dual tradition of Durkheim and MaussChapter 8 From sociological interest in food to sociologies of food; 1 The sociology of food consumption; 2 The "developmentalist" perspective; 3 The H-omnivore or the sociology of the eater; 4 The sociology of eaters: An interactionist perspective; Chapter 9 The sociologies of food and attempts to forge connections; 1 Revisiting Durkheim; 2 Scale analysis; Chapter 10 The sociology of French gastronomy; 1 The complexity of French gastronomy; 2 Why is gastronomy French?