SOC349H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neoliberalism, Alternative Culture, Food Sovereignty
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Lecture 7: foodies the search for exotic/authentic meals. Evaluation: being able to identify, critique, and compare/contrast foods. Gastronomy is produced through discourse: discourse: group of ideas that is articulated through texts, and defines the limits of what can be said about a topic. Food writers serve as culinary and cultural gate-keepers. Snobbery not disappearing, but becoming more complex and hidden. Still important, but variety (multiple cuisines) considered more important. Appreciating poor food by making it fancy. Ingredients once considered low-class make a big splash in fine dining. End of snobbery, with low-class and high-class merging. Bring the lower class into high class culture through cuisine. Cultural capital: set of socially rare and distinctive tastes, skills, knowledge, practices. Upper class separated from lower class through cuisine. General trend away from snobbish exclusion towards cultural eclecticism by high status cultural groups. Foodies are omnivores, rejecting old-world snobbery but not rejecting status-seeking. Framing of food as suitable for high status consumption.
