COMS 477 Midterm review Flashcards
What are the 4 Core components or critical food literacy?
1) Knowledge and food systems
2) Food procurement with mindfulness
3) Basic food and preparation skills
4) Social networks
Define and explain Habitus
- Refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital and is made up of the deeply ingrained habits, skills and disposition that we possess
- Habitus is a feel for a certain social situation/habitus that allows to navigate those situations
What is Habitus mistaken for?
Can be mistaken for individuals preference rather than a social constructed development
Explain a person with high level of cultural capital influence on taste?
They are likely to to determine what constitutes “taste” in society
What are the symbolic elements of cultural capital
- skills
- tastes
- posture
- clothing
- mannerism
that one acquire being apart of a particular social class
Who defines Symbolic Violence and what does it mean?
Bourdieu calls the acceptance of dominant forms of taste
Symbolic violence denies the dominated classes a means to defining there own worlds
What are children taught from an early age?
What there taste look, sound and taste like so they are entrenched in one class from a early age and guided them towards there social class
What are food systems?
includes all of the actors and processes that bring food from the landscape to the table and back again, as well as the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts that shape these pathways
what is food scape?
refers to the spaces and places in which people produce, acquire, eat, talk and think about food
What is food cultures
is the meaning of different food choices, food habits, restrictions, market choices and policies (Koc, Sumner and Wilson
What is food studies
is a new field of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities that examines linkages between these diverse components of the food system.
What are interdisciplinary studies
integrate two or more disciplines into a single approach to scholarship. (emerged after the 1970’
What are the 4 major lenses through which scholars view the food scape
The environment: rising concerns about the impact of food systems in the environment (pollution, climate change, sustainability etc…)
o Political economy: historical processes or systems shape institutions in ways that reproduce patterns of social imbalance and conflict in society (governance of food, global food systems, food sovereignty)
o Society and culture: Intersections between food society and culture (race studies, food identity, food justice movement)
o And human health: Linkages between food, health and ag policy (food related, diseases, food choices, food literacy)
What is anthropocene
The predomination influence of humans on earth
Climate Change Intersects with many environmental topics in food studies, what are they?
Soil erosion from intensive farming
o Deforestation of landscapes to make way for agriculture practices
o Overfishing
o Water pollution from chemical pesticides and fertilizers
o Loss of water-based habitats leading to rapid loss of plant and animal species
What are alternative food initiatives
sustainable food practices
what are food regimes
Refers to the historical periods in the arrangement of the world food systems that corresponds to patterns of stability and change in global political structures and the capitalist economy.
what are food ways
set of practices, ideas, and habits that coalesce around food and its movement through food systems
what it culinary capital
presentation of food experiences and knowledge that elevates certain people over others
What does interectionality
recognizes that identity cannot be sperated into mutually exclusive groups of ability, age, class, ethnicity etc… instead people experience these facets of identity all at the same time.
What is food security?
Refers to which people have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious foods that meets their needs and food prefernces for an active and healthy lifestyle
what are food deserts
people that have limited access to food
what is habitus
how taste preferences become internalized. taste come to feel natural, even though they are cultural products of our classed upbringings
what are schemas
deep largly unconscious networks of neural association that facilitate perception, interpretation and action (culture schemas can influence food behaviours at a less conscious levels)
