The practice of eating
By: Alan Warde
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780745691701; 9780745691718
Subjects: Social aspects; Food consumption; Food habits
Description: "This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings. 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 systemically applied to the activity of eating"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Towards a sociological theory of eating; title: Elements of the theory of practice; title: Elementary forms of eating; title: Organising eating; title: Habituation; title: Repetition and the foundations of competence; title: Conclusions: practice theory and eating out; title: References.