The practice of eating / Alan Warde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warde, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Social aspects.

Food habits.

Food consumption--Social aspects.

Food consumption.

Physical Description:

vii, 203 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings. Leading sociologist of food Alan Warde deals both with abstract issues about theories of practice and substantive analyses of aspects of eating, demonstrating how theories of practice can be elaborated and systematically applied to the activity of eating. The Practice of Eating will become required reading for students and scholars of food and consumption in a wide range of disciplines, from sociology, anthropology and cultural studies to food studies, culinary studies and nutrition science. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction

Towards a sociological theory of eating

Elements of the theory of practice

Elementary forms of eating

Organising eating

Habituation

Repetition and the foundations of competence

Conclusions: practice theory and eating out

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-189) and index.

ISBN:

9780745691701

0745691706

9780745691718

0745691714

OCLC:

914156894