Food Practices and Social Inequality: Looking at Food Practices and Taste Across the Class Divide

ISBN-13: 9780367234492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Jennifer Smith Maguire

Opis

This book explores the cultures of food practice across the spectrum of social stratification. It discusses the critical creativity and cultural capital employed by individuals, families and communities in an attempt to prepare healthy and desirable food. It was published as a special issue of Food, Culture & Society.

Spis treści

Introduction: Looking at Food Practices and Taste across the Class Divide  1. Food Acquisition in Poughkeepsie, NY: Exploring the Stratification of "Healthy Food" Consciousness in a Food-Insecure City  2. Cultural and Symbolic Capital With and Without Economic Constraint: Food Shopping in Low-Income and High-Income Canadian Families  3. Making the Most of Less: Food Budget Restraint in a Scandinavian Welfare Society  4. Tortillas, Pizza, and Broccoli: Social Class and Dietary Aspirations in a Mexican City  5. The Possibilities and Limits of Personal Agency: The Walmart that Got Away and Other Narratives of Food Acquisition in Rural Texas  6. From "Junk Food" to "Treats": How Poverty Shapes Family Food Practices  7. Understanding Food Access in a Rural Community: An Ecological Perspective

O autorze

Jennifer Smith Maguire is Associate Professor of Marketing in the School of Business at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research focuses on the construction of markets, tastes and value. Major areas of work include cultural intermediaries as taste makers, and the cultural production and consumption of provenance and authenticity as forms of value.