The Nation's Diet: The Social Science of Food Choice

ISBN-13: 9780582302853 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 398 str.

Murcott, Anne

Opis

This work is based on a research project which has the question "why do we eat what we eat?" at its heart. This volume brings together some of the research carried out under its auspices and an introductory chapter outlines the goal of the project and highlights the main themes which have emerged.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Food Choice, Social Sciences and 'The Nation's Diet' Programme.
Part One: Social Sciences and Food Choice: Proceeding from Axioms, Operational Definitions and Measurements.
2. The Effects of Life Stress on Food Choice.  3. Understanding Dietary Choice and Dietary Change: Contributions from Social Psychology.  4. Changing What Children Eat. 5. Consumer Theory and Food Choice in Economics, with an Example. 6. What We Eat and Why: Social Norms and Systems of Provision. 7. How British Retailers Have Shaped Food Choice. 8. A Sociological Approach to Food Choice: The Case For Eating Out.
Part Two: Social Sciences and Food Choice: Analysing Socio-political Processes and Cultural Constructions.
9. Regulation, Rights and the Structuring of Food Choices.  10. Studying Food Choice in its Social and Cultural Contexts: Approaches from a Social Anthropological Perspective. 11. Food Choice and Diet Change Within the Family Setting. 12. The Marriage Menu: Life, Food and Diet in Transition. 13. Ethnographies of Eating in an Urban Primary School. 14. Food Choice, Food Scares, and Health: the Role of the Media. 15. Food Choices for Babies. 16. Food Choice and Culture in a Cosmopolitan City: South Asians, Italians and other Glaswegians.
Part Three: Social Sciences and Food Choice: Additional Perspectives.
17. Food Choice and the British System of Formal and Informal Welfare Provision: Questions for Research. 18. British Market-Research Data on Food: a Note on Their Use For the Academic Study of Food Choice. 19. The Discourse of Scientific Knowledge of Nutrition and Dietary Change in the Twentieth Century. References.
Index of Authors. Index of Principal Topics.

O autorze

Anne Murcott