Download e-book for iPad: Food Practices and Social Inequality: Looking at Food by Jennifer Smith Maguire

Policy-related, educational and populist bills of the connection among nutrition and sophistication are inclined to reproduce a dichotomy that privileges both middle-class discerning flavor or working-class necessity. Taking a markedly assorted procedure, this assortment explores the classed cultures of foodstuff practices around the spectrum of social stratification. Eschewing assumptions in regards to the tastes (or lack thereof) of low-income shoppers, the authors name cognizance to the varied, complicated sorts of serious creativity and cultural capital hired by means of participants, households and groups of their makes an attempt to obtain and get ready meals that's either fit and fascinating. the gathering comprises study performed within the usa, Canada, Mexico and Denmark, and covers diversified contexts, from the serious lack of confidence of nutrients deserts to the relative safety of social democratic states. via quantitative and qualitative cross-class comparisons, and ethnographic debts of low-income studies and practices, the authors learn the ways that nutrition practices and personal tastes are inflected through social classification (alone, and together with gender, ethnicity and urban/rural location). the gathering underlines the simultaneous want for the improvement of a extra nuanced, dynamic account of the tastes and cultural competences of socially deprived teams, and for structural opinions of the gross inequalities within the levels of freedom with which diverse members and teams interact in nutrition practices. This publication was once initially released as a unique factor of Food, tradition & Society.