- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Introduction: Situating Consumers and Consumption
- The Social Embeddedness of Marketing
- The Sharing Economy
- Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the “New” Prosumer
- Consumer Culture Theory
- A Sociological Critique and Reformulation of Brands
- Relational Work and Consumption
- Meaningful Objects and Consumption
- Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption
- Taste, Legitimacy, and the Organization of Consumption
- Cultural Markets and Consecration
- Emotions in Consumer Studies
- Young People and Consumption: The Changing Nature of Youth Consumption in an Era of Uncertainty and Digital Experience
- Consumption <i>as</i> Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist Relations
- Household Finances and Credit Visibility
- The Cultivation of Market Behaviors and Economic Decisions: Calculation, Qualculation, and Calqulation Revisited
- Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking
- Consumer Credit Surveillance
- Omnivorousness, Distinction, or Both?
- The Development of Ethnoracial Market Segments: Lessons from the US Latino Media Market
- Race and Consumer Inequality
- Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas
- Gentrification and Urban Inequality
- Branding National Identity in an Unequal World
- Subcultures and Consumption
- Taste, Sensation, and Skill in the Sociology of Consumption
- Food Tastes
- Gender as a Critical Perspective in Marketing Practice
- Consumer Cities, Scenes, and Ethnic Restaurants
- Ethical Consumption
- Affluence, Anti-Consumerism, and the Politics of Consumption
- Linking Environmental Sustainability and Consumption
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter addresses some of the central themes in the inquiry into food, taste, and consumption. Specifically, it focuses on how researchers have investigated the causes and consequences of tastes in food, including structural position and identity, and consequences for bodies, and for social and physical landscapes. It is also essential for scholars of food and taste to take seriously the role of pleasure, as well as the effects of food consumption on broader social and physical ecologies. Tastes shape landscapes, affecting carbon production and biodiversity, groundwater and air quality. Researchers cannot study food tastes as somehow disembodied, and the best work in this area today attends to this nexus of pleasure and risk, symbolism and materiality. In addition, researchers in this arena need to be highly attuned to avoiding the centering of their own tastes as markers of good taste.
Keywords: food, taste, inequality, habitus, ecology
Jennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Introduction: Situating Consumers and Consumption
- The Social Embeddedness of Marketing
- The Sharing Economy
- Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the “New” Prosumer
- Consumer Culture Theory
- A Sociological Critique and Reformulation of Brands
- Relational Work and Consumption
- Meaningful Objects and Consumption
- Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption
- Taste, Legitimacy, and the Organization of Consumption
- Cultural Markets and Consecration
- Emotions in Consumer Studies
- Young People and Consumption: The Changing Nature of Youth Consumption in an Era of Uncertainty and Digital Experience
- Consumption <i>as</i> Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist Relations
- Household Finances and Credit Visibility
- The Cultivation of Market Behaviors and Economic Decisions: Calculation, Qualculation, and Calqulation Revisited
- Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking
- Consumer Credit Surveillance
- Omnivorousness, Distinction, or Both?
- The Development of Ethnoracial Market Segments: Lessons from the US Latino Media Market
- Race and Consumer Inequality
- Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas
- Gentrification and Urban Inequality
- Branding National Identity in an Unequal World
- Subcultures and Consumption
- Taste, Sensation, and Skill in the Sociology of Consumption
- Food Tastes
- Gender as a Critical Perspective in Marketing Practice
- Consumer Cities, Scenes, and Ethnic Restaurants
- Ethical Consumption
- Affluence, Anti-Consumerism, and the Politics of Consumption
- Linking Environmental Sustainability and Consumption
- Index
