Food and Society

William C. Whit

doi:10.5771/9780742580244

Summary

The importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world.

Organized from the experiences of food consumption through its preparation, distribution, storage and production, this book discusses the role of food in past societies, the basics of nutrition, contemporary issues, including body size, food and culture, food production, world hunger and food innovation.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1995
ISBN-Print: 978-1-882289-37-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7425-8024-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 244
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1. "Chicken Little" No access
2. Food Co-op No access
3. Rice No access
4. Modes of Ownership No access
5. Oligopolistic Ownership Structure No access
6. Oligopoly in Breakfast Cereal No access
7. Summary No access
1. Food and Nutrition in Hunting and Gathering Societies, 12000–7000 B.C. No access
2. Food and Nutrition in Food Growing Societies, 7000 B.c.–1850 A.D. No access
3. Summary No access
1. Protein No access
2. Fat No access
3. Carbohydrates No access
4. Vitamins and Minerals No access
5. Summary No access
1. Sugar No access
2. Meat: Beef No access
3. Nutritional Self-Defense: Vegetarianism No access
4. Summary No access
1. Fat and Thin in History No access
2. Thin and Fat in Contemporary Society No access
3. A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Obesity and Its Therapies No access
4. An Integrated Model of Eating Disorders No access
5. Summary No access
1. The Indian Sacred Cow No access
2. Jewish Pork Proscriptions No access
3. World Cuisine: China and India No access
4. American Food I: Thanksgiving No access
5. American Food ll: Fast Food No access
6. Summary No access
1. Food in Social Interaction No access
2. Food and Social Stratification No access
3. Hunger and Homelessness No access
4. Summary No access
1. A Summary of the History of Agricultural Technology No access
2. Family-Farm Technology No access
3. TheTechnology of Oligopoly No access
4. Agriculture in the Industrial Era No access
5. An Appraisal of "Scientific" Agriculture No access
6. Agricultural ldeas for People and the Planet No access
7. Promising U.S. Experiments and Projects No access
8. Summary No access
1. The Facts No access
2. Conservative Analyses and Prescriptions No access
3. Liberal Analyses and Prescriptions No access
4. Political-Economic Modern Socialist Analyses and Prescriptions No access
5. Summary No access
1. Everyone Eats: China, Cuba, Sri Lanka and Kerala No access
2. Other Socialist Examples No access
3. The Food Counterculture and its Penumbra No access
4. A Niche Theory of Healthy Eating No access
5. Summary No access
Appendix: Peper Harow No access Pages 238 - 240
Index No access Pages 241 - 244