The American culinary field has experienced a broadening in recent decades. While French food retains high status, gourmet can now come from broad range of cuisines. This change mirrors other cultural fields labeled “omnivorousness” within the sociology culture. authors take writing as case study to understand rationales underlying omnivorousness. Their findings, based on qualitative and quantitative data, reveal two frames used valorize limited number foods: authenticity exoticism. These...

Introduction: Entering the Delicious World of Foodies 1. Foodies, Omnivores and Discourse 2. Eating Authenticity 3. The Culinary Other: Seeking Exoticism 4. Foodie Politics: This is one delicious revolution 5. Class its Absence 6. Caring about Food: Doing Gender in Kitchen Conclusion. Continuity, Change, Moral Ambiguity

This article draws on interviews with “foodies”—people a passion for eating and learning about food—to explore questions of gender foodie culture. The analysis suggests that while this culture is by no means gender-neutral, foodies are enacting in ways warrant closer inspection. puts forward new empirical findings food employs the concept “doing gender” to how masculinities femininities negotiated Our focus doing generates two insights into work. First, we find has different implications men...

The social history of film in the United States is examined to illuminate ideological and organizational foundations valuation art. Attempts valorize as art began 's first decades. Thereafter, a series key events actions late 1950s 1960s, both inside outside world, resulted shift audiences'perception film-from form entertainment cultural genre that could properly be appreciated This perception was made possible by opening an artistic niche brought about changes institutionalization resources...

Are higher status cultural tastes in the modern United States better described as being inclusive and broad or exclusive narrow? We construct an original dataset response to conflicting answers this question. fill a major gap literature on by simultaneously considering taste for both musical genres artists within genres. By examining compositional balance of respondents’ portfolios, we reconcile seemingly incommensurate theoretical frameworks class homology omnivorousness. The results...

Abstract Under what conditions is ethical consumption a high-status practice? Using unique food survey data on aesthetic and preferences, we investigate how these orientations to are related. Existing research points the “foodie,” who defines good taste through standards. And emergent evidence suggests “ethical consumer,” whose driven by moral principles, may also be identity. However, can practiced in inexpensive subcultural ways that do not conform dominant status hierarchies (e.g.,...

Despite rising concerns about the meat industry and animal slaughter, consumption in Europe North America remains relatively high, what has been called “meat paradox.” In this article, we examine a diverse sample of Canadian eaters vegetarians to build on earlier work psychological strategies people employ justify eating meat. We analyze explanations give for within context sociologists term cultural repertoires —the taken‐for‐granted, unarticulated scripts that inform actions. distinguish...

Scholars have long studied consumer taste dynamics within class-stratified contexts, but relatively little attention has been paid to the preferences of low-socioeconomic-status groups. We analyze interview data from 254 individuals 105 families across Canada explore cultural repertoires that guide tastes in food. Empirically, we ask which foods respondents prefer, and for what reasons, socioeconomic status Analytically, argue demonstrate aesthetic operate according four are distinctly...

Abstract This article advances our knowledge of how political consumption is related to conventional forms politics. Using survey data collected in Toronto 2011, we examine different kinds are a range behaviours. We find that, contrary pessimistic views, strongly correlated with do not evidence for crowding out or substitution effect on However, findings suggest that an individualized and relatively exclusive form consumption, demographic correlates resemble other high status cultural...

Are contemporary higher-status tastes inclusive, exclusive, or both? Recent work suggests that the answer likely is both. And yet, little known concerning how configurations of such are learned, upheld, and expressed without contradiction. We resolve this puzzle by showing affordances different levels culture (i.e., genres objects) in expression tastes. rely on original survey data to show people higher status taste differently at culture: more inclusively for exclusively objects....

By definition, androgynous names do not serve as gender markers. Two radically different expectations about their growth are plausible: on the one hand, rise of feminist movement, which militates against distinctions, would suggest increasing in recent decades. On other cross-cultural research indicates that first designate more frequently than any characteristic a child or its family, suggesting minimal increase. Examining data for all white births Illinois every year from 1916 through 1989...

The social history of film in the United States is examined to illuminate ideological and organizational foundations valuation art. Attempts valorize as art began film's first decades. Thereafter, a series key events actions late 1950s 1960s, both inside outside world, resulted shift audiences’ perception film—from form entertainment cultural genre that could properly be appreciated This was made possible by opening an artistic niche brought about changes institutionalization resources...

Abstract Past research on the relationship between unemployment rates and population health has produced mixed findings. The can be influenced by kinds of outcomes observed, time frame, level geographic aggregation, other factors. Given these findings, there is a need to add our knowledge about how are related. There limited that examines association with both physical mental health, while simultaneously stratifying populations income education levels. Using survey-based self-reported data,...

What can representations of women's 'caring consumption' (Thompson Citation1996) reveal about broad cultural understandings the nature motherhood? We study Canadian television advertisements to gain insight into production schemas and reproduction beliefs gender motherhood. Employing an inductive qualitative analysis portrayals mothers women who are not depicted as mothers, we find that defining feature mothers' consumption is a unidimensional depiction control caring for others, presented...

Abstract The phenomena of meat production and consumption are related but often studied separately, funnelled into silos agro‐food consumer‐focussed research. This article aims to reconnect these spheres by asking: How do producers understand the role consumers in ethical meatscape? We draw from interviews site visits with 74 actors engaged system Canada. find that loom large cultural imaginary framed as key drivers food change. make a two‐pronged argument explains complex, embedded presence...

We extend prior research on “ethical” food consumption by examining how motivations can vary across demographic groups and kinds of ethical foods simultaneously. Based a survey shoppers in Toronto, we find that parents with children under the age 5 are most likely to report intention purchase organic be primarily motivated health taste concerns. In contrast, local is collectivist concerns – environment supporting economy associated educated, white consumers. addition highlighting this...