SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Junk Food, Social Class, Leon Kass
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Soc 808 - wednesday september 13 - week 1. Structure vs agency: structure refer to preexisting arrangements that in uence our behaviour, agency refer to choices individuals make, social structures that in uence eating behaviour. Sociological imaginations: c. wright mills: the ability to see the relationships between individual experience and larger society. It enables us to of beyond personal experiences and observations to understand public issues. Sociological perspective: peter burger: allows us to. *test questions three examples of general in particular: tell me what you eat and i"ll tell you who you are . *test questions: friedemann talks about social context which of the following does she mention a,b,c, or all of the above. Food system: refers to complex web of social relations, processes, structures and institutional arrangements that cover human interaction with nature and with other humans throughout the food cycle from production to consumption and even further.