Acclaimed as a vintage textual content presently after its unique booklet, The Sociology of Food is the 1st English language translation of Jean Pierre Poulain's seminal work.
Offering an creation to the social research of nutrients over contemporary many years, in addition to new learn into the foodstuff crises skilled this present day, the e-book presents an in depth assessment of sociological and anthropological views on meals. Divided into halves, Poulain to start with explores the continuities and alterations within the smooth nutrition utilizing empirical examine. From the impression of globalization on nutrition construction and provide, to evolving cultural responses to foodstuff, together with cooking and consuming practices, the administration of customer anxieties, and matters over weight problems and the medicalization of foodstuff, this part examines how altering meals practices have formed and are formed by way of wider social developments. the second one part offers a extra theoretical viewpoint at the emergence of nutrition as a tutorial concentration for sociologists and anthropologists. Explaining the epistemological hindrances that lay within the method of this new box of research, Poulain exhibits how this new disciplinary box was once verified and keeps to develop.
Destined to develop into a key textual content for college students and students of sociology, anthropology and nutrients reviews, The Sociology of Food introduces the concept that of 'alimentary social area' to a brand new, English-speaking readership.
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