SOC 808 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Whole Foods Market, Vegetable Oil, Sugar
20 Nov 2018
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Food habits are also shaped by other things, often beyond our direct and conscious control. Canadians eat more meat now than in the past. Canadians eat two times more meat than japanese people) Our food habits and our food system are influenced by a complex set of social relations, processes, structures, and institutions. Food scholars also emphasize that the food system is structured by relations of power, which lead to inequalities both within and across nations and contribute to environmental degradation. Some aspects of food were studied academically in the past (e. g. , agronomy, economics, food science, home economics), but were often studied separately, with little interaction between people in different fields. Different aspects of the food system are interconnected, and our food habits are so complex, that it makes sense to study these things in relation to each other. Food studies is a field that draws on many different disciplines (it is multidisciplinary)
