SOC 808 Midterm: SOC808 - Midterm - Ch5:6

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Jacqui Gingras

Document Summary

Chapter 5: constructing healthy eating / constructing self. Discourses: pervasive ways of thinking, define what can be said about something or made possible. Influence, shape, and determine how people think and act (foucault, 1979) Discourse & identity: canadians engage with food and eating through discourses that link health and eating practices to: Identify (who we are): gender, life stage, ethnicity, social class. What discourses constitute "healthy eating": through setting social standards that influence behaviour and ways of thinking, dispersed through newspapers, television, magazines, internet and educational institutions. Feminine foods: ice cream, chocolate, salads, vegetables and light foods. Masculine foods: steak and other red meat, heavy and rich foods: women who do not feed their children healthy foods" are considered. What is the practical work associated with lack of money: having to worry about where to store food, make sure its in a "safer" place.