Food foraging online: Exploring how we choose which recipes to search and share

Lifestyle and personality can often be discovered through daily food choices. For instance, influence through social groups, food documentaries or the desire for fitness/weight loss can often create a shift in people’s food choices. These changes in diet can highlight important life events, an overall lifestyle change or an individual’s culture. One way to study people’s cultural food patterns is to study the language they use to share recipes. This is especially important as new recipes can now be discovered with the click of a button as opposed to traditional recipe books, creating online recipe sharing communities. Users can share their most personal or newly learned recipes as well as create a dialogue of feedback or suggestions. Given that food is a major component of our physical and emotional well-being, the focus of this research was to investigate food communication among online communities. In study 1, topic modeling analysis was performed on recipes taken from the popular social networking sites allrecipes.com (N = 32,944) to identify 11 major themes around the consumption of food. Next, study 2, a replication study, used identical topic modeling analysis on the SNS food.com (N = 190,808) to identify 13 themes. Implications of these groupings, as well as the social and personal settings users reported trying the recipes, are discussed, along with limitations and suggestions for further study.

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The Great Illusion: Ignorance, Informational Cascades, and the Persistence of Unpopular Norms

Business Ethics Quarterly ◽

10.2307/3857639 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 127-155 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Cristina Bicchieri ◽

Yoshitaka Fukui

Keyword(s):

Social Groups ◽

Well Being ◽

Public Officials ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Informational Cascades ◽

Mediterranean Countries ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

The Individual ◽

Individual Choices

Norms of discrimination against women and blacks, norms of revenge still alive in some Mediterranean countries, and norms that everybody dislikes and tries to circumvent, such as the invisible norms of reciprocity that hold among the Iks studied by Turnbull, are all examples of unpopular and inefficient norms that often persist in spite of their being disliked as well as being obviously inefficient from a social or economic viewpoint. The world of business is not immune to this problem. In all those countries in which corruption is endemic, bribing public officials to get lucrative contracts is the norm, but it is often true that such a norm is disliked by many, and that it may lead to highly inefficient social outcomes (Bicchieri and Rovelli 1995).From a functionalist viewpoint such norms are anomalous, since they do not seem to fulfill any beneficial role for society at large or even for the social groups involved in sustaining the norm. In many cases it would be possible to gain in efficiency by eliminating, say, norms of racial discrimination, in that it would be possible to increase the well-being of a racial minority without harming the rest of society. To social scientists who equate persistence with efficiency, the permanence of inefficient norms thus presents an anomaly. They rest their case on two claims: when a norm is inefficient, sooner or later this fact will become evident. And evidence of inefficiency will induce quick changes in the individual choices that sustain the norm. That is, no opportunity for social improvement remains unexploited for long. Unfortunately, all too often this is not the case, and this is not because people mistakenly believe inefficient norms to be good or efficient.

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What Structural Injustice Is

Structural Injustice ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190053987.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 85-115

Author(s):

Madison Powers

Keyword(s):

Relative Position ◽

Social Groups ◽

Well Being ◽

Structural Theory ◽

Structural Components ◽

Theory Of Justice ◽

The Social ◽

Core Elements ◽

Key Features ◽

Structural Theories

This chapter examines what makes a theory of justice a structural theory. Four key features of structural theories are surveyed in order to show what is distinctive about our theory. First, structural theories differ in their inventory of unjust impacts traceable to structural influences. Second, they vary in their understanding of the primary structural components having the relevant impact. Third, they diverge in the social groups selected for special scrutiny. Fourth, they differ in background assumptions regarding the circumstances to which they apply. Our theory applies to social arrangements that have a profound, pervasive, asymmetric, and near-inescapable impact on core elements of well-being of social groups. Social groups are defined by their relative position within the nexus of power and advantage. This nexus occurs in circumstances involving identifiable agents of injustice whose wrongful conduct is manifested in their roles in creating or sustaining injustices.

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APPLYING THE SOCIAL COGNITIVE MODEL OF WELL-BEING IN THE NURSING CLINICAL PRACTICUM: A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING ANALYSIS WITH A SPANISH STUDENT’S SAMPLE

Nurse Education in Practice ◽

10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103028 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 103028

Author(s):

Juan Arribas-Marín ◽

Vicente Hernández-Franco ◽

Calixto Plumed-Moreno ◽

Ángeles Blanco-Blanco

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Cognitive Model ◽

Well Being ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Clinical Practicum ◽

Modeling Analysis ◽

The Social ◽

Social Cognitive Model ◽

Nursing Clinical

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The social side of sustainability: Well-being as a driver and an outcome of social relationships and interactions on social networking sites

Technological Forecasting and Social Change ◽

10.1016/j.techfore.2017.06.031 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 130 ◽

pp. 14-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Andreas Munzel ◽

Lars Meyer-Waarden ◽

Jean-Philippe Galan

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Well Being ◽

The Social ◽

Social Side

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The Social Casino Gaming-Gambling Link: Motivation for Playing Social Casino Games Determines Whether Self-Reported Gambling Increases or Decreases Among Disordered Gamblers

Journal of Gambling Issues ◽

10.4309/jgi.2016.33.4 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 52 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Samantha J. Hollingshead ◽

Hyoun S. Kim ◽

Michael J A. Wohl ◽

Jeffrey L. Derevensky

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Life Events ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Potential Harm ◽

Reduction Strategy ◽

Casino Gaming ◽

Social Casino Games ◽

Harm Reduction Strategy ◽

The Social ◽

Skill Building

Engagement with social casino games (i.e., free online casino-like games available on social networking sites) has been found to be a risk factor for increased gambling behaviours (Kim, Wohl, Salmon, Gupta, & Derevensky, 2015). However, this may not be true for all social casino gamers. In the current research, we tested the idea that motivation to play social casino games will predict changes in self-reported gambling behaviours among disordered gamblers. Results showed that disordered gamblers (N = 140) who were motivated to play social casino games for the social connection it provides or for skill building reported an increase in their gambling. Conversely, playing in order to cope with negative life events or for excitement was not predictive of gambling. However, gamblers who reported playing social casino games to reduce cravings to gamble reported an overall decrease in gambling. The implications of social casino games as a potential harm reduction strategy for some disordered gamblers are discussed.

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Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being

10.1093/oso/9780198786931.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Claire Taylor

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Relations ◽

Economic Condition ◽

Social Relation ◽

Social Groups ◽

Well Being ◽

The Poor ◽

Good Citizenship ◽

The Social ◽

The Rich

In the fifth and fourth centuries BC Athenian ideas about poverty were ideologically charged. The poor were contrasted with the rich and found, for the most part, to be both materially and morally deficient. Reflecting ideas about labour, leisure, and good citizenship, the ‘poor’ were considered to be not only those who were destitute, or those who were living at the borders of subsistence, but also those who were moderately well off but had to work for a living. Defined this way, this group covered around 99% of the population of Athens. This book sets out to rethink what it meant to be poor in a world where poverty was understood as the need to work for a living. It explores the discourses that constructed poverty as something to fear and links these with experiences of penia (poverty) among different social groups in Athens. Drawing on poverty research within the social sciences, it argues that poverty in democratic Athens should not necessarily be seen in terms of these elitist ideological categories, nor indeed only as an economic condition (the state of having no wealth), but in terms of social relations, capabilities, and well-being. The volume, therefore, provides a critical reassessment of poverty in democratic Athens which is in line with debates in contemporary poverty research. It develops a framework to analyse the complexities of poverty as a social relation as well as exploring the discourses that shaped it. Poverty is reframed throughout as being dynamic and multidimensional. In doing so, it provides an assessment of what the poor in Athens—men and women, citizen and non-citizen, slave and free—were able to do or to be.

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Social food pleasure

Qualitative Market Research An International Journal ◽

10.1108/qmr-06-2018-0067 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 544-556

Author(s):

Monica Mendini ◽

Marta Pizzetti ◽

Paula C. Peter

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Food Consumption ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Well Being ◽

Food Choices ◽

Healthy Food ◽

Content Type ◽

Current Trends ◽

The Social

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce and define social food pleasure as a new conceptual framework that can promote pleasurable and healthy food experiences. Design/methodology/approach By reviewing the literature related to food well-being and pleasure primarily from marketing and management fields and by looking at current trends appealing to food consumers and food enjoyers, the authors propose a new conceptual framework of social food pleasure. Findings The authors conceptualize social food pleasure as “the enjoyment derived from the acts of sharing food experiences offline, online, and for society at large, that positively contributes to consumers’ overall pleasure and satisfaction with consumer’s food consumption”. Moreover, the authors identify three key contexts of applications of social food pleasure. Sharing offline relates to the social activities that can help achieve pleasure with food. Sharing online concerns new media tools which allow for the connection between consumers and food to enhance food pleasure. Sharing for society considers the current pleasure of consumers derived from having a positive social experience based on food consumption. Originality/value By defining social food pleasure and proposing a conceptual framework of the three contexts of application, the authors advance the understanding of what constitutes pleasurable food experiences, connecting it to healthy food choices and well-being.

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