Consumption, food, and taste : culinary antinomies and commodity culture /

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Using food as a case study of consumption and the expression of taste, Warde outlines various theories of change in the 20th century and suggests that consumption is best viewed as a process of continual selection from a range of accessible items.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Warde, Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1997.
Subjects:
Food habits > Great Britain.
Consumer behavior > Great Britain.
Food > Social aspects.
Habitudes alimentaires > Grande-Bretagne.
Consommateurs > Comportement > Grande-Bretagne.
Alimentation > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Aliments > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Consumer behavior
Food habits
Food > Social aspects
Verbrauch
Nahrungsaufnahme
Geschmack
Verbraucherverhalten
Ernährungsgewohnheit
Consumptie.
Consumptiepatroon.
Voeding.
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Consumption, taste and social change
  • The new manners of food : trends and their sociological interpretation
  • Measuring change in taste
  • Novelty and tradition
  • Health and indulgence
  • Economy and extravagance
  • Convenience and care
  • The reconstruction of taste
  • Theories of consumption and the case of food
  • Notes
  • Appendix: Technical details about methodology
  • Magazines
  • The family expenditure survey and discriminant analysis
  • Great Manchester survey, 1990.

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