SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2025
SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 3613W is also offered in Summer 2023
SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2023
SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2013 | SOC 3613W Section 001: Food, Culture, and Society (34229)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
GEOG 3900 Section 001
GLOS 3613W Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Food issues from a sociological perspective. Cross-cultural differences in how groups/societies think about and relate to food.
- Class Description:
- Hamburgers and a Coke, rice and beans, collard greens, wonton soup, creme brulee What meanings and feelings do these foods conjure up, and for whom? Where are their key ingredients produced? Who prepares these dishes, and who eats them? This course is built on two key premises: first, that the production, distribution, and consumption of food involves relationships among different groups of people, and second, that one can gain great insights into these social relations and the societies in which they are embedded through a sociological analysis of food. Among the themes we will explore in this course are the different cultural and social meanings attached to food; food, culture and body image; the industrialization of agriculture; the global food system; work in the food sector; the debate over genetically modified food; and efforts to change the current food system.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34229/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 April 2013
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