Sociologies of Food and Nutrition

McIntosh, Wm. Alex

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“…More globally, food choices could also refer to a status symbol (Bourdieu, 1979) to be put in relation with the health food movement in North America (McIntosh, 1996). These elements could explain the fact that even the same nutritional program does not have the same impact on different social groups, as observed by Whitehead (1995).…”

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Social position and nutrition: a gradient relationship in Canada and the USA

Dubois

Girard

2001

Eur J Clin Nutr

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Obejctive: To study the existence of a graded relationship between the nutrient content of the diet and some measures of social position. Design and setting: The graded relationship hypothesis was veri®ed by secondary analysis performed on two different nutrition surveys: the Quebec Nutrition Survey (QNS) and the NHANES III, both based on a single 24 h recall. The data of these surveys were collected on a representative sample of two different populations, the ®rst (n 2103) in the province of Quebec (Canada) in 1990 (QNS) and the second in the US population (n 14 877) between 1988 and 1994 (NHANES III). Main outcomes measures:The social gradient hypothesis was tested with four different social position indicators. The analyses were performed separately for men and women aged from 18 to 74 y, for all the nutrients available in the databanks. For the USA, the graded relationship for the total population, for the non-Hispanic white population and for respondents sometimes or often experiencing a lack of food was also measured. Results: A graded relationship between almost all nutrients and the studied social position measurements is observed for the consumption of total calorie-adjusted nutrients, for the proportion of people eating in accordance with dietary guidelines and for the proportion of individual not meeting 75% of the respective Recommended Dietary Allowances for their country. The direction of these relationships (positive or negative) is mainly in accordance with the clinical known impacts of nutrients on chronic diseases. Conclusions: It is possible that nutrition plays a role in the graded distribution of social health inequalities in North America even in the magnitude of this contribution remains to be evaluated.

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Social position and nutrition: a gradient relationship in Canada and the USA

Dubois

Girard

2001

Eur J Clin Nutr

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“…According to Rozin (1998), the best predictor of the food preferences, habits and attitudes of any particular human would be information about his ethnic group and native cuisine, rather than any biological measure that one might imagine. Finally, McIntosh (1996) affirms that cuisine remains strongly rooted, even after language and other customs disappear during inclusion processes.…”

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“…Culture represents one of three predominant approaches used to explain food use and nutritional health, together with economy and psychology (McIntosh, 1996). According to Rozin (1998), the best predictor of the food preferences, habits and attitudes of any particular human would be information about his ethnic group and native cuisine, rather than any biological measure that one might imagine.…”

Section: Tradition and Culturementioning

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Factors influencing pulse consumption in Latin America

Leterme

Muũoz

2002

Br J Nutr

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In Latin America, pulse consumption ranges from 1 kg/capita per year (Argentina) to 25 kg/ capita per year (Nicaragua). Common beans account for 87 % of the total. The differences between countries, regions or groups of population within the same country can be explained by the following factors: (1) beans are very nutritious; (2) beans and maize are traditional foods and the habit of consuming them is deeply rooted in many people and communities; (3) the rural population eats more pulses than the urban population, due to geographical constraints that limit exchanges and favour consumption of locally produced foods; (4) income level, beans are still the poor man's meat; and (5) other factors, such as consumers' taste, the constraints on cooking beans, etc. The evolution of the consumption level in the future will depend on the urbanization of the population, access to processed foods and income level. Health issues would be an argument for maintaining or increasing the current consumption level.

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“…A number of sociological and anthropological works offer literature reviews (Goody 1984;Mennell et al 1992;Warde 1997) or compilations of key writings (McIntosh 1996;Couniham and van Esterick 1997;) on taste. These sometimes very complete books can help to draw up an inventory of the results obtained by various research programmes on food.…”

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Qualities of food

Harvey¹,

McMeekin²,

Warde³

2004

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The series New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition, published in association with the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester and UMIST emanates from an engagement of the Centre's research agenda with a wide range of internationally renowned scholars in the field. The series casts new light on the significance of demand and consumption, markets and competition, and the complex inter-organisational basis for innovation processes. The volumes are multidisciplinary and comparative in perspective. Tables and figuresThe CRIC-MUP series New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition is designed to make an important contribution to this continually expanding field of research and scholarship. As a series of edited volumes, it combines approaches and perspectives developed by CRIC's own research agenda with those of a wide range of internationally renowned scholars. A distinctive emphasis on processes of economic and social transformation frames the CRIC research programme. Research on the significance of demand and consumption, on the empirical and theoretical understanding of competition and markets, and on the complex inter-organisational basis of innovation processes provides the thematic linkage between the successive volumes of the series. At the interface between the different disciplines of economics, sociology, management studies and geography, the development of economic sociology lends a unifying methodological approach. Strong comparative and historical dimensions to the variety of innovation processes in different capitalist economies and societies are supported by the international character of the contributions. The series is based on international workshops hosted by CRIC which have encouraged debate and diversity at the leading edge of innovation studies.CRIC is an ESRC-funded research centre based in the University of Manchester and UMIST. Series foreword ContributorsThis book arises from the proceedings of one of a continuing series of international workshops organised by the UK Economic and Social Research Councilfunded Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition. Principal themes of CRIC's research programme include markets and competition, consumption practices and the development of the service economy; the workshop, which was held in January 2002, was mounted to promote discussion of those topics in the field of food, and focused on various aspects of production and consumption. We express our thanks to the authors who contribute to this book. We thank also other participants of the workshop whose comments have been incorporated in the text during the revision of the preliminary papers. Our gratitude goes to Sharon Hammond and Deborah Woodman for the vital part they played in organising the workshop, to Philippa Grand who prepared the typescript for the publisher and to the staff at Manchester University Press who processed the book. Preface Food and qualityFood in late modern societies is marked by controversy. It was never a matter of indiff...

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Sociologies of Food and Nutrition

Cited by 116 publications

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Social position and nutrition: a gradient relationship in Canada and the USA

Social position and nutrition: a gradient relationship in Canada and the USA

Factors influencing pulse consumption in Latin America

Qualities of food

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