Practice of Eating
Practice of Eating This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. Leading sociologist of food, Alan Warde, deals both with abstract issues about…
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Practice of Eating
This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. 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 book falls into two parts. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings.
Warde reviews research on eating, introduces theories of practice and constructs eating as a scientific object. The first part establishes a basis for a practice-theoretic account of eating. The second part develops key concepts for the analysis of eating as a practice, showing how concepts like habit, routine, embodiment, repetition and