Food and social change: Culinary elites, contested technologies, food movements and embodied social change in food practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-519
Author(s):  
Renata Motta ◽  
Eloísa Martín
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Comparative Sociology ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Food Movements ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Basic Issue ◽  
Theories Of Change

In this introduction, we have asked a very classical sociological question and brought together interdisciplinary efforts to critically approach it, focusing on a basic issue: food. We briefly reconstruct the main approaches to social change in sociological theory and then identify main themes with which food studies have contributed to this debate. If, to avoid normative and formal approaches, theories of change require contextualization in order to keep their explanatory value, this volume brings historical and geographical context to provide an analysis of social change through the lenses of food. Methodologically, articles offer diverse approaches to food, allowing different kinds of perspectives on change. While statistical analysis or historically comparative sociology will provide correlational snapshots and structural transformations, ethnographies necessarily deal with change happening in the everyday. The articles in this monograph have been organized into four broad groups: (1) national cuisines as elite projects of social change; (2) science and technology as contested tools for social change; (3) social mobilization and food movements as agents of social change; and (4) micro- and macro-level change and beyond: culinary subjectivities, embodied social change and food transition.

scholarly journals Food movements, agrifood systems, and social change at the level of the national state: The Brazilian Marcha das Margaridas

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 626-646
Author(s):  
Aline Borghoff Maia ◽  
Marco Antonio Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
National State ◽  
Food Movements ◽  
Agrifood System ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Do So

Situated within the sociological debate on social change, the present article examines the potential for food movements to transform agrifood systems. Existing analyses within the field of food studies predominantly examine agrifood systems at either the global or local level. By contrast, our analysis begins with the national sphere, and seeks to demonstrate how national transformations relate to those on the global and local scales. We, thus, challenge the approach of dichotomous scales by providing categories and perspectives that highlight the relational and interdependent character of food movements. To do so, we examine the Marcha das Margaridas – a movement based in Brasil – and its achievements in transforming the national agrifood system. Established in 2000, the Marcha das Margaridas is a feminist mobilization that plays a central part in the fight against inequalities in agrifood systems and foments discussion of food politics on a multiplicity of scales. We demonstrate this by mapping the march’s public policy achievements, and by analyzing three of these in detail.

scholarly journals Max Weber and 21st-Century Modern

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-230
Author(s):  
Peter Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Comparative Sociology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Complicated Manner ◽  
The Given

In a rather complicated manner, Max Weber’s writings contain general theoretical reflections that are now incorporated in the canon of sociological theory, in the analyses of social change in the form of historical and comparative sociology, and in reflections on political events, all in the guise of the diagnosis and critique of his own historical age. This article attempts to draw conclusions from the tensions between these aspects in Weber’s work by trying to discover how such a sophisticated combination of cognitive goals is possible today, and what limits it encounters. What the “light of great cultural problems” falls upon, what elements of the past determine the present, and what events are particularly important for understanding of a certain age are questions whose answers must regularly be sought anew. The author relies on the concept of “modernity”, or rather, on the field of interpretation arising around this term. He assumes that the given field is wide enough to better understand our present condition by means of this term. In the meantime, the author believes that for this understanding to be successful, present-day modernity must be appropriately positioned in this field theoretically, historically, and as the diagnosis of our age.

Pendidikan Islam dan Humanitas

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-355
Author(s):  
Mohammad Liwa Irrubai
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Educational Objectives ◽  
Basic Issue ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Human Problem

Today, the human problem in social life concerning education is growing more complex; many new ideas emerge as the level of human intellectuality grows. This paper will reveal the current issue of education in Indonesia and discuss ideas from the concept of liberal education. The basic issue of education criticized by liberal education is that education today focuses more on the needs of society than the educational objectives themselves. Education as a tool to transfer science, values, and agents of social change is seen as one alternative solution in the framework of improving people's lives. The education in which values are embodied is one of the efforts offered by genuine liberal education, aimed at giving us the habits, ideas and techniques necessary to continue our own education. Humans have the ability to learn continuously throughout life so that we can prepare ourselves to study and again as long as we are alive.

Gender and Embodiment as Negotiated Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Crawley ◽  
Ashley Green
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Interactionist Approach

Gender pervades every part of life, from identity and embodied practices to institutional and transnational social order. An interactionist approach recognizes that gender is constituted by pervasive, thoroughgoing, situational organizing practices of meaning-making pervading our worlds, which are always relational and emergent among people in institutional contexts at historical moments. Gender identities are not a feature of “types” of individuals but, rather, comprise negotiated relations between and among us—which can be normalizing or resistant. This chapter examines the development of sociological theory on gender and embodiment. It begins by looking at a brief timeline of the last 150 years of the everyday (US) “queer” lexicon to demonstrate how academic concepts seem to intertwine with the proliferation of everyday identities in the mundane world. The chapter then outlines its beginnings in microsociology, the connections between micro and macro theorizations, and emergent masculinities, femininities, transgender, and non-binary identity practices, pointing to various paradigm shifts along the way including feminisms, intersectionality, and queer theory. Constantly in production for everyone, gender proliferates as negotiated relations, made especially visible by resistance identities. We conclude briefly with future directions.

Bourdieu and Affect

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Structures Of Feeling

A Bourdieusian contribution to studies of affect provides a more comprehensive understanding of the everyday moments that make, transform and remake the social contours of inequality, and how those relations are contested and resisted. By teasing out the affective elements already implicit in concepts like habitus, illusio, cultural capital, field and symbolic violence, this book develops a theory of affective affinities to consider how emotions and feelings are central to how class is affectively delineated along with material and symbolic relations. This includes theorising habitus as one’s history rolled up into an affective ball of immanent dispositions, an assemblage of embodied affective charges. Sketching fields as having their own affective atmospheres and structures of feeling, while considering everyday settings that the concept of field cannot capture. Drawing upon illusio, social gravity and social magic to unpack how the embodied nature of the forms of capital mean they operate in affective economies mediating transmissions of affective violence. The book concludes by critically engaging with aspects of social change due to the rise of reflexivity, irony and cynicism and proposing the figure of the accumulated being to challenge the dominance of homo economicus.

scholarly journals Young Children, Maker Literacies and Social Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Kristiina Kumpulainen ◽  
Anne Burke ◽  
Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday

Although making—that is, playing, experimenting, expressing, connecting, and constructing with different tools and materials towards personal and collective ends—has characterised the everyday activities of many children and adults across cultures for ages, there seems to be no doubt that novel digital technologies and media are transforming and re-mixing more traditional maker activities, with new opportunities for communication, collaboration, learning, and civic engagement [...]

SECULARIZATION AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: ARGUMENTS IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN BRITISH RELIGION

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEREMY MORRIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Secularization Theory ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
British Religion ◽  
Religious Decline

ABSTRACTThe historiography of religion in modern Britain has been dominated in recent years by controversy over the sociological theory of secularization. This review of the literature on secularization in modern Britain traces its apparent persuasiveness in part to assumptions about religious decline and renewal which are central to Christian soteriology. Recognition of the nature of secularization theory discloses a monolithic notion of religion itself. Closer attention to the complexity of religious experience may yield an account of religion more attuned to the contours of social change in modern Britain.

What are unintended and adverse consequences?

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva ◽  
Hugh Gash ◽  
Jose-Luis Usó-Domenech
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Status ◽  
Constituent Elements

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the unintended consequences of actions as one of the central and constituent elements of sociological theory and long debated in the history of sociology. This question has been treated under varying sociological terminologies, including, providence, social forces, social paradoxes, heterogeneity of ends, immanent causality and the principle of emergency. Design/methodology/approach This paper is concerned with “adverse effects”. The thematic contexts of “unintended consequences of social action” the authors wish to focus attention on are specific types of consequences which may merit the adjective “adverse”. Findings The analysis of the intentions of our actions and their unwanted or foreseen consequences allows us to understand how societies work. Many historical facts are probably “unintentional.” But, most continuous or changing life forms must be interpreted as a mixture of intentional (social reproduction) and unintentional consequences (social change). Originality/value This paper focuses on four points of view: the object of sociology, the problems of order and social change, the methodological status of the discipline and the nature of social explanation, and mathematical theory. Four classifications of unintended consequences are formulated from the works of Boudon, Baert and Ramos, as well as the authors.

scholarly journals A Critique of the Concepts of “Youth” and “Generation” as Applied in Empirical Research in Contemporary Tunisia

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 881-908
Author(s):  
Jonas Roellin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Reference Category ◽  
Age Cohort

Abstract In this paper, I argue that both concepts of “youth” (arabic “šabāb”) and “generation” (arabic “ğīl”) are in different ways misleading and problematic when applied in empirical research on Tunisians of lower age. While they are not affirmatively used and partly even rejected by the latter, they also appear inadequate when employed as analytical categories. Instead, as I will suggest, (historical) “age cohort” is an adequate reference category that can be qualitatively described according to the shared perceptions and actions of its respective members. Thereby, the focus on self-concepts and self-narratives appears to be particularly helpful in understanding the contemporary condition of Tunisians of lower age and their social mobilization practices. It reveals, among other findings, that their movements are not primarily directed at political and social change, though conventionally assumed, but rather express a search for greater possibilities of mobility and autonomy beyond both state and societal boundaries.

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