Social Science Agriculture & Food
Acquired Tastes
Why Families Eat the Way They Do
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2014
- Category
- Agriculture & Food, Customs & Traditions
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774828604
- Publish Date
- Nov 2014
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774828581
- Publish Date
- May 2015
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774828574
- Publish Date
- Nov 2014
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Magazine articles and self-improvement books tell us that our food choices serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes reveals that they say more about where we come from and who we would like to be. Interviews with Canadian families in both rural and urban settings reveal that age, gender, social class, ethnicity, health concerns, food availability, and political and moral concerns shape the meanings that families attach to food. They also influence how parents and teens respond to discourses on health, beauty, and the environment, a finding with profound implications for public health campaigns.
About the authors
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Jos�e Johnston works in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her major area of research is the sociology of food and her work brings together several research threads including globalization, political ecology, consumerism, and critical theory.
Deborah McPhail is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba.
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Elaine M. Power is Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University.