Description
This popular text, now in a third edition, offers readers a vivid perspective on the cultural and social complexities of food practices and the current food system. Synthesizing insights from the multidisciplinary field of food studies, this book engages readers' curiosity by highlighting the seeming paradoxes of food: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary era, seems to come from everywhere but nowhere in particular.
Each chapter begins with an intriguing case study and ends with suggested resources and activities. Chapter topics include identity, restaurants and food media, health, marketing, industrialization, global food, surplus and scarcity, and social change. Updates and enhancements in this edition reflect new scholarly insights into how food is involved in social media, social movements, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout, the book blends concepts and empirical accounts to address the central issues of culture, structure, and social inequality.
Written in a lively, accessible style, this book provides students with an unrivalled and multifaceted introduction to this fascinating aspect of social life.
Author: Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, Betsy Lucal
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.14w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9781509542246
ISBN10: 1509542248
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
About the Author
Amy E. Guptill is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport.
Denise A. Copelton is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport.
Betsy Lucal is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University South Bend.