SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Healthy Diet, Macrobiotic Diet, Anomie

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Mustafa Koc

Document Summary

This week we will look at the current state of confusion about healthy eating and how we get our information about it. Confusion on what is good to eat: we are more confused about what is good to eat, french sociologists fischler (1988) calls this confusion gastro-anomie. Discourses of healthy eating: beagan and chapman (ch 5) Healthy eating needs to be seen as a socially constructed, discourse that shapes and is shaped by what people say and do in relation to food (p. 65) "discourses" refers to pervasive ways of thinking that over time come to define what can be said about something, or what can even be considered to be possible. Discourses influence, shape, and determine how people think and act, or how they are expected to think or act, in a given society (ibid. ) Three discourses of healthy eating (***m/c on midterm***)