Table of Contents

List of figures and tables Preface List of abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Permanent and Changing Aspects in Modern Eating Practices Chapter 1: The Globalization of the Food Supply: De-localization and Re-localization Chapter 2: Between the Domestic and the Economic Spheres: The Ebb and Flow of Culinary Activity Chapter 3: The Evolution of Eating Practices Chapter 4: From Food Risks and Food Safety to Anxiety Management Chapter 5: Obesity and the Medicalization of Everyday Food Consumption Part 2: From Sociological Interest in Food to Sociologies of Food Chapter 1: The Major Socio-Anthropological Movements and Their Encounters with the "Food Social Fact" Chapter 2: Epistemiological Obstacles Chapter 3: From Sociological Interest in Food to Sociologies of Food Chapter 4: The Sociologies of Food and Attempts to Make Connections Chapter 5: The Sociology of French Gastronomy Chapter 6: The Food Social Space: A Tool for the Study of Food Patterns As a Conclusion: The Call for Constructivist Positivism References Index

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Newly translated in English, this seminal work from leading French sociologist Jean-Pierre Poulain provides a systematic overview of the social study of food.

About the Author

Jean-Pierre Poulain is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, France, and Chair of Food Studies: Food, Cultures and Health at Taylor's-Toulouse University Centre, Malaysia. He is the author of a number of books on the sociology of food and tourism. His work has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.

Reviews

This timely translation adds an important Continental perspective to the English-language food canon, while also reaching forward to the cross-disciplinarity that characterizes contemporary Food Studies. Poulain’s framing of systemic complexities and multiple sociologies reminds us of the critical importance of thinking-and-doing both through and with food—a holistic and necessary approach.
*David Szanto, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy*

Gives a timely and insightful narrative to readers interested in finding out more about this developing sphere of research.
*LSE Review of Books*