SOCI 3130 - Sociology of Food

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course is designed as an introduction to the emerging field of the sociology of food. Food is intimately connected to vital sociological issues of power and identity. When you eat, how you eat, why you eat, and with whom speak volumes on our personalities, our social interactions, our social differentiations and stratifications, and our ethnic, gender, sexual, economic, political, religious, geographic, family, and life-stage identities. Topics will include food and the construction of identity, dining and manners, food movements, work in the food industry, food controversies, diet and health, fast food, globalizing markets, and others.