- Title
- The social appetite: a sociological approach to food and nutrition
- Creator
- Williams, Lauren; Germov, John
- Relation
- Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology p. 129-146
- Relation
- http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- What role does the production, distribution, and consumption of food play in determining health and illness? ; Why is the food supply subject to medicalisation and McDonaldisation, and how do these social trends impact on population health? ; Why is the developed world worried about an obesity epidemic and what are the consequences of this concern? Food is both a part of the daily social life of individuals and a way to achieve health. While hunger is an ever-present reality for people in less developed countries, in the wealthy developed parts of the world, diet-related health problems are the result of over-consumption. This chapter introduces the concept of the social appetite: the sociological approach to understanding the production, distribution, and consumption of food. The chapter investigates three topical health-related issues: the medicalisation of food, the McDonaldisation of the food supply, and obesity, to examine the role of structure and agency around food and eating. The social appetite provides a framework for understanding how social factors influence why we eat the way we do, which in turn underpins a range of diet-related health problems in contemporary developed societies.
- Subject
- sociological approaches; food; nutrition; McDonaldisation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923661
- Identifier
- uon:9782
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780195562811
- Language
- eng
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