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The practice of eating / Alan Warde.

By: Warde, Alan [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2015Description: 220 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745691718 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Food habits -- Social aspects | Food consumption -- Social aspects | Food and Drink | Food and DrinkDDC classification: 394.1'2 Summary: This text reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and develops new concepts to help reshape and reorient common understandings. Written by a leading sociologist of food, it deals both with abstract issues about theories of practice and substantive analyses of aspects of eating, demonstrating how theories of practice can then be elaborated and systematically applied to the activity of eating.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and develops new concepts to help reshape and reorient common understandings. Written by a leading sociologist of food, it deals both with abstract issues about theories of practice and substantive analyses of aspects of eating, demonstrating how theories of practice can then be elaborated and systematically applied to the activity of eating.

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