Familial fictions: families and food, convenience and care

Jackson, Peter

doi:10.1108/ejm-11-2017-0882

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“…This contradicts the original argument about hot spots: 'the forms of convenience necessary to negotiate hot spots also generated anxiety about "taking short cuts" and not "doing a job well" (all narratives of personal integrity)' (Southerton, 2003: 21). Yet participants in this study did not feel particularly anxious about taking shortcuts in relation to breakfast (such as simply opening a packet of pre-prepared biscuits) and did not express tensions between care and convenience (Jackson, 2018;Meah and Jackson, 2017;Warde, 1997). Hence, we contend that in the 'hot spot' participants did not express a sense of guilt or loss of their personal integrity for using shortcuts motivated by time management.…”

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confidence: 86%

Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care

2021

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Drawing on 34 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates the temporality of family practices taking place in the hot spot. It does so by looking at how breakfast is inserted in the economy of family time in Italy. Our data show that breakfast, contrary to other meals, allows the adoption of more individualised and asynchronous practices, hinged on the consumption of convenience products. These time-saving strategies are normalised as part of doing family. Although the existing literature suggests that convenience and care are in opposition, and consumers of convenience products can experience anxiety and a lack of personal integrity, such features were not a dominant feature of our participants’ accounts. These findings suggest that the dichotomies of hot/cold spots and care/convenience are not always experienced in opposition when embedded within family practices. Hence, this study furthers understandings of family meals, temporality and the distinction between hot and cold spots.

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Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care

2021

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“…The sociological literature on food is highly diverse and rapidly expanding. It includes investigations of the contexts and practices of food consumption, the political economy of food production, the work of feeding families, the meanings attached to certain food items or to practices of eating, the inequalities arising from different access to particular diets, the social conditions underpinning food anxieties and the "moral panics" surrounding changing eating practices (Murcott et al, 2012;Murcott, 2012;Jackson, 2018). However, sociological interest in food is not new and can be traced back to early explorations of class, political economy, the development of commodity culture and gender relations.…”

Section: A Sociology Of Family Food and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While these particular writers do not self-identify as sociologists, in showing how advertising serves to create and sustain markets for particular foods and diets and, in some cases, contributes to the social anxieties surrounding eating and nutritional advice ("food scares", "food fears" and allergies), their writings reveal the workings of a strong sociological imagination. The contributions of the geographer Peter Jackson, too, are sociologically notable, in revealing the contexts and conditions shaping community-wide anxieties about food and its safety (Jackson, 2015(Jackson, , 2018Jackson and Everts, 2010).…”

Section: A Sociology Of Family Food and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intersectional research stories of responsibilising the family for food, feeding and health in the twenty-first century

Davis¹,

Hogg

Marshall

et al. 2018

EJM

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PurposeLiterature from across the social sciences and research evidence are used to highlight interdisciplinary and intersectional research approaches to food and family. Responsibilisation emerges as an important thematic thread, as family has (compared with the state and corporations) been increasingly made responsible for its members’ health and diet.Design/methodology/approachThree questions are addressed: first, to what extent food is fundamentally social, and integral to family identity, as reflected in the sociology of food; second, how debates about families and food are embedded in global, political and market systems; and third, how food work and caring became constructed as gendered.FindingsInterest in food can be traced back to early explorations of class, political economy, the development of commodity culture and gender relations. Research across the social sciences and humanities draws on concepts that are implicitly sociological. Food production, mortality and dietary patterns are inextricably linked to the economic/social organisation of capitalist societies, including its gender-based divisions of domestic labour. DeVault’s (1991) groundbreaking work reveals the physical and emotional work of providing/feeding families, and highlights both its class and gendered dimensions. Family mealtime practices have come to play a key role in the emotional reinforcement of the idea of the nuclear family.Originality/valueThis study highlights the imperative to take pluri-disciplinary and intersectional approaches to researching food and family. In addition, this paper emphasises that feeding the family is an inherently political, moral, ethical, social and emotional process, frequently associated with gendered constructions.

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“…If intake is the exposure of interest, then questions about what participants eat seem more relevant. Still, the social desirability of home-prepared food (HPF) [23, 24] may make individuals overestimate the number of home-prepared meals they consume. In addition, qualitative studies suggest that not everyone interprets terms like ‘home-prepared’ in the same way [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

Home-prepared food, dietary quality and socio-demographic factors: a cross-sectional analysis of the UK National Diet and nutrition survey 2008–16

Astbury

Penney

Adams

2019

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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Background Evidence suggests eating home-prepared food (HPF) is associated with increased dietary quality, while dietary quality varies across socio-demographic factors. Although it has been hypothesised that variation in HPF consumption between population sub-groups may contribute to variation in dietary quality, evidence is inconclusive. This study takes a novel approach to quantifying home-prepared food (HPF) consumption, and describes HPF consumption in a population-representative sample, determining variation between socio-demographic groups. It tests the association between HPF consumption and dietary quality, determining whether socio-demographic characteristics moderate this association. Methods Cross-sectional analysis of UK survey data ( N = 6364, aged≥19; collected 2008–16, analysed 2018). High dietary quality was defined as ‘DASH accordance’: the quintile most accordant with the Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension (DASH) diet. HPF consumption was estimated from 4-day food diaries. Linear regressions were used to determine the association between HPF consumption and socio-demographic variables (household income, education, occupation, age, gender, ethnicity and children in the household). Logistic regression was used to determine the association between HPF consumption and DASH accordance. Interaction terms were introduced, testing for moderation of the association between HPF consumption and DASH accordance by socio-demographic variables. Results HPF consumption was relatively low across the sample (Mean (SD) % of energy consumption = 26.5%(12.1%)), and lower among white participants (25.9% v 37.8 and 34.4% for black and Asian participants respectively, p < 0.01). It did not vary substantially by age, gender, education, income or occupation. Higher consumption of HPF was associated with greater odds of being in the most DASH accordant quintile (OR = 1.2 per 10% increase in % energy from HPF, 95% CI 1.1–1.3). Ethnicity was the only significant moderator of the association between HPF consumption and DASH accordance, but this should be interpreted with caution due to high proportion of white participants. Conclusions While an association exists between HPF consumption and higher dietary quality, consumption of HPF or HPF’s association with dietary quality does not vary substantially between socio-demographic groups. While HPF may be a part of the puzzle, it appears other factors drive socio-demographic variation in dietary quality.

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Familial fictions: families and food, convenience and care

Cited by 19 publications

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Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care

Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care

Intersectional research stories of responsibilising the family for food, feeding and health in the twenty-first century

Home-prepared food, dietary quality and socio-demographic factors: a cross-sectional analysis of the UK National Diet and nutrition survey 2008–16

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