Beer and Society - How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us

This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society's collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring the Social World Through Beer
Chapter 1. Beer Psychology is Totally a Thing
Chapter 2. Who Drinks Beer-and Why
Chapter 3. The Social Organization of Beer: The Way Things Are Now
Chapter 4. The Business of Beer
Chapter 5. How Laws and Regulation are Everything
Chapter 6. Brewing Cultures
Conclusion: Towards a Deeper Appreciation of Beer and Society
Epilogue

About the author

By Eli Revelle Yano Wilson and Asa B. Stone

Summary

This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society's collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.

Product details

• Authors: Asa B. Stone, Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, Eli Revelle Yano Stone Wilson
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781666904352
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-435-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Beers and ciders, Beers, Cultural studies: food and society