Consumption in the Age of Affluence

by Ben Fine; Michael Heasman; Judith Wright

• ISBN13: 9780585451961
• ISBN10: 0585451966
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-03-11
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

With growing affluence in the developed world, food has become an increasing focus for attention. The authors argue that in order to understand the extensive and dramatic developments in the world of food, a new interdisciplinary approach is necessary. "Consumption" "in the Age of Affluence" successfully addresses food consumption in this way. The volume argues the importance of socioeconomic and cultural factors over diet, in influencing the production, marketing and consumption of different groups of foods. It places food systems theory on sound analytical foundations, draws critically upon food systems literature, includes case studies from the sugar, dairy and meat industries and employs novel statistical techniques to identify and explain distinct patterns of food consumption.

Table of Contents

From Food Studies to Food Systems	p. 1
Introduction and Overview	p. 3
Food Studies: an Initial Assessment	p. 13
Specifying Food Systems	p. 29
3	p. 31
Differentiating Food Systems	p. 60
Theoretical and Empirical Applications	p. 75
The Uk Sugar System	p. 77
Sugar or Sweet	p. 131
The Poverty of Food Econometrics	p. 146
What We Eat and Why	p. 167
Food Norms: Methods and Data	p. 169
Children, Low Income and the Sausage Syndrome	p. 184
The Meat System	p. 201
Food and Class	p. 218
The Dairy System	p. 237
Whither Food Studies?	p. 265
Summing Up and Future Directions	p. 267
References	p. 278
Index	p. 292
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