SOC 478 Lecture 10: SOC478 Lecture 10

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 478
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

For example, the beliefs and behaviours surrounding the production and consumption of food. A complex of ideas and behaviours associated with food the how and why of eating. Attention to a culture(cid:495)s food system leads to a better understanding of its economic, social and cultural beliefs. Speech (talking) seen from the point of view of the beliefs values and categories which it embodies. These beliefs constitute a way of looking at the world, an organization or representation of experience. How we talk or think about food as vegan or carnivore. Social identity theory: we attach ourselves to those similar as we become dependent on others, couched in the notion of community/lifestyle culture participation. Focuses on the ways in which individuals perceive and categorize themselves, based on their social and personal identities. Sit emphasizes group processes and inter-group relations in effect to (cid:498)fit in with the community or (cid:498)family(cid:499)