Food, class and identity

Title: Food, class and identity
Creator: Germov, John
Relation: A Sociology of Food & Nutrition: The Social Appetite p. 264-280
Relation: http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/social_science/sociology/9780195551501
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: This chapter shows, class differences in nutritional intake and food choice have diminished in a number of countries. Nevertheless, class patterns in food consumption persist, fuelling a public discourse that blames the 'poor diets of the poor' for working-class health problems. Yet the relationship between class, food and health is much more complex, particularly given the connections between food habits and class identity. Concerns by nutrition experts about working-class diets may have more to do with social differentiation than with nutrition-related health inequality. Drawing on a range of social research, this chapter examines the relationship between class and food.
Description: 3rd ed.
Subject: nutrition; food consumtion; class identity; social aspects of food
Identifier: uon:5862
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44739
Identifier: ISBN:9780195551501

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