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A Case Study of Sustainability and Civic Engagement in a Sociology of Food Course

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2015
K. Welde
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The sociology of food

2015
W. Mcintosh
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Food, Sociology of

2015
A. Drouard
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Linking socioeconomic disadvantage to healthiness of food practices: Can a practice-theoretical perspective sharpen everyday life analysis?

Sociology of Health and Illness, 2021
Food is one of the key themes in public health policy and debates over inequalities in health. In this article, we argue that more research is needed to understand how socioeconomic disadvantage is translated into low degrees of healthiness.
B. Halkier, L. Holm
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Food allergy and food intolerance: towards a sociological agenda

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2009
This article asks what sociological insights an analysis of food allergy and food intolerance might afford. We outline the parameters of debates around food allergy and food intolerance in the immunological, clinical and epidemiological literatures in order to identify analytic strands which might illuminate our sociological understanding of the ...
Sarah, Nettleton, Brian, Woods, Roger, Burrows, Anne, Kerr   +3 more
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The Sociology of Taste: Food, Tradition, and Change in Ghana

International journal of research and scientific innovation
This study explores the sociological dimensions of food identity and preferences within the context of Ghanaian cuisine. Grounded in qualitative research, including interviews, participant observation, and literature review, the study investigates how ...
R. Armah, Saira Ashraf
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Gastronomic Identities: The Role of Food in Cultural Belonging

Journal of Ecohumanism
Literary works provide cultural values, ideas, and attitudes in order to shed light on the habits and beliefs of numerous cultures. A multitude of heterogeneous cultures coexist worldwide, each encompassing a plethora of viewpoints and convictions ...
P. S, M. Bindu, M. Sumathy, A. A. Dorathy   +3 more
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The Sociology of Food and Nutrition A Sociological Assessment

1996
Sociologists have made few self-conscious efforts in the study of food and nutrition as potential sources of social phenomenon. Founding sociological theorists such as Marx, Simmel, Sorokin, and Mead and contemporary theorists such as Bourdieu, Collins, Lenski, Wallerstein, Goldstone, Tilly, Lamont, and others have used food as a scarce resource or as ...
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Food from a Sociological Perspective

2014
The aim of this article is to examine, from a sociological point of view, the roles, functions, attributes, meanings and practices connected to the concept of food. Food is the symbol of socio-cultural realities, the product cyclically adapted to environmental, structural and cultural changes in which it is inserted. Now more than ever, the variegated
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SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FOOD AND NUTRITION IN IRAN

Foodservice Research International, 2001
This paper seeks to analyze the food and nutrition of Iran and the impact of the social elements on this system. Regards food and nutrition as a system with the following sub‐systems: production, importation, processing, storing, distribution and consumption.
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