The taste of inequality : food and the reproduction of social class
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Growing inequality manifests in what individuals eat. Indeed, significant dietary and diet-related health disparities in the United States follow a socioeconomic gradient. Scholars commonly account for these dietary inequities using structural explanations that highlight differences in people's geographic and financial access to healthy food. These explanations emphasize food's material value to people with the underlying assumption that people eat simply to nourish themselves, and thus survive. But eating is about much more than physical nourishment: food also has significant symbolic, emotional and cultural value. We eat not only to live, but to fulfill other functions, among them, to provide for loved ones, to cultivate belonging, to show care and affection, and to achieve and signal status. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 160 parents and adolescents and over 100 hours of participant observations with families across socioeconomic status, this dissertation shows how food's symbolic, emotional and moral meanings help drive dietary disparities and contribute to the reproduction of inequality.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Fielding-Singh, Priya |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Gardner, C. D. (Christopher David), 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Jackson, Michelle Victoria |
| Thesis advisor | McAdam, Doug |
| Degree committee member | Gardner, C. D. (Christopher David), 1959- |
| Degree committee member | Jackson, Michelle Victoria |
| Degree committee member | McAdam, Doug |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Priya Fielding-Singh. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Priya Fielding-Singh
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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