Consumption, Food and Taste - Culinary Antinomies and Commodity Culture

Informationen zum Autor Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He has worked in the sociology of consumption over the last 15 years and has published extensively on the topic. He was Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition, between 1999 and 2007, where he was responsible for a programme of research on consumption. He has written a dozen books and edited a further eleven. Klappentext Exploring the expression of taste through the processes of consumption this book provides an incisive and accessible evaluation of the current theories of consumption, and trends in the representation and purchase of food. Zusammenfassung Exploring the expression of taste through the processes of consumption this book provides an incisive and accessible evaluation of the current theories of consumption! and trends in the representation and purchase of food. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: ISSUES OF TASTE Consumption, Taste and Social Change The New Manners of Food Trends and their Sociological Interpretation Measuring Change in Taste PART TWO: INDICATORS OF TASTE: CHANGING FOOD HABITS Novelty and Tradition Health and Indulgence Economy and Extravagance Convenience and Care PART THREE: INTERPRETATIONS OF TASTE The Reconstruction of Taste Theories of Consumption and the Case of Food

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alan Warde, Warde Alan
• Edition: Sage Publications Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 17.02.1997
• EAN: 9780803979734
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7973-4
• Pages: 240
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; COOKING / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, 20th Century, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Cookery / food & drink etc, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Consumerism, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, Social Theory;Sociology of Health & Illness