Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes

by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal

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This popular and engaging text, now revised in a second edition, offers readers a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers' curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular. With updates and enhancements throughout, the new edition provides an empirically deep, multifaceted, and coherent introduction to this fascinating field.

Each chapter begins with a vivid case study, proceeds through a rich discussion of research insights, and ends with discussion questions and suggested resources. Chapter topics include food's role in socialization, identity, health and social change, as well as food marketing and the changing global food system. The new edition gives more focused attention to labor (both paid and unpaid) in all aspects of the food system. In synthesizing insights from diverse fields of social inquiry, the book addresses issues of culture, structure, and social inequality throughout.

Written in a lively style, this book will continue to be both accessible and revealing to beginning and intermediate students alike.

  • ISBN13 9781509501861
  • Publish Date 27 December 2016 (first published 2 November 2012)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 13 December 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Polity Press
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 264
  • Language English
  • URL http://wiley.com