Talk:Social class differences in food consumption
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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mdl516 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Aeb604.
Additional information
What I plan on contributing to this article:
-How these differences are seen in various countries
-How this concept relates to food deserts and food security
-Some of the characteristics of foods that are normally eaten by people of different social classes (across cultures)
-The attitudes of people towards certain foods and the stigmas that are attached to these foods
Sources:
Fajans, Jane. Brazilian Food: Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines. London: Berg, 2012. Print.
Kato, Yuki, and Laura Mckinney. "Bringing Food Desert Residents to an Alternative Food Market: A Semi-Experimental Study of Impediments to Food Access." Agriculture and Human Values 32.2 (2015): 215-27. ProQuest. Web. 1Oct. 2016.
Musarò, Pierluigi. "Food Consumption and Urban Poverty: An Ethnographic Study." Italian Sociological Review 3.3 (2013): 142-51. ProQuest. Web. 2 Oct. 2016.
Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Food in World History. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. Internet resource.
Rock, Melanie, Lynn Mcintyre, and Krista Rondeau. "Discomforting Comfort Foods: Stirring the Pot on Kraft Dinner® and Social Inequality in Canada." Agriculture and Human Values 26.3 (2009): 167-76. ProQuest. Web. 1 Oct. 2016.
Wilk, Richard R. Fast Food/slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2006. Print.
Wright, Wynne, and Elizabeth Ransom. "STRATIFICATION ON THE MENU: USING RESTAURANT MENUS TO EXAMINE SOCIAL CLASS*." Teaching Sociology 33.3 (2005): 310-6. ProQuest. Web. 4 Oct. 2016.
Zmyer002 (talk) 22:54, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Peer Review
Hello. I'm Samantha and I'm excited to peer review this article because this topic seems very interesting. I actually have discussed this topic in one of my education classes and actually have some video clips from certain documentaries that may be of interest for this article if you would like the links for them! @Zmyer002 Samf1998 (talk) 14:57, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
@Samf1998: Hi, Samantha, it's Zonya. Could you please send me the links? I'd greatly appreciate it! Thank you so much :). Zmyer002 (talk) 05:04, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Zymer002: Here you go! I believe some of them are clips from a documentary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqYCePrzJWA Food or Medicine? I also think you should look into the documentary "A Place at the Table." I hope this helps!Samf1998 (talk) 13:54, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
Peer Review
Hello, I'm Samaria and I will be assisting Samantha to peer review your article. I think the topics you are planning to contribute to this article are great. Here are a few questions to keep in mind that may be useful:
- Does social class determine what we eat?
- Does social class predict our diet quality?
- Does health cost or considerations factor in what we eat? @Zmyer002 Shortieex (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
@Shortieex: Hello, Samaria. I will definitely be taking these questions into consideration. I am very grateful for your input! I'll ping you from my sandbox so you can see the progression of my draft. Zmyer002 (talk) 05:22, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
Suggested Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Feldman, Charles. “Roman Taste.” Food, Culture, and Society, vol. 8, no. 1, 2005, pp. 7–30.
Laudan, Rachel. Cuisine and Empire: Cooking In World History. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2013.
Mennell, Stephen. All manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France to the Present. University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Twiss, Katheryn. “The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity.” Journal of Archaeological Research, vol. 20, no. 4, 2012, pp. 357–395. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41680530.
Wesson, Cameron B. “Chiefly Power and Food Storage in Southeastern North America.” World Archaeology, vol. 31, no. 1, 1999, pp. 145–164. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/125100.
EVCC group improvement project
Linchukbb (talk) 18:18, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello,
We are a group from EVCC who chose this article to improve as part of an English composition course assignment.
Below are some preliminary links to sources we think may be useful for this topic.
Articles for Research
Costs of a Healthy Diet Article: (PDF Download) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/costs-of-a-healthy-diet-analysis-from-the-uk-womens-cohort-study/892904335791E51D6601A7297CF6FEA8
Can Low-Income Americans Afford a Healthy Diet? Web Article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847733/
Diet Quality and Adolescent Mental Health Web Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00048670903571598
Relationship of Hunger and Food Insecurity to Food Availability and Consumption Web Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002822396002714
Effects of Fast-Food Consumption on Energy Intake and Diet Quality on Children (PDF): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Pereira2/publication/295704475_Effects_of_Fast_Food_Consumption_on_Energy_Intake_and_Diet_Quality_Among_Children_in_a_National_Household_Study/links/02bfe5112a3b76c4d3000000/Effects-of-Fast-Food-Consumption-on-Energy-Intake-and-Diet-Quality-Among-Children-in-a-National-Household-Study.pdf
Eating Patterns, Dietary Quality and Obesity Web Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2001.10719064
Article on effects of poor nutrition in low income countries; reduction in fertility, body composition, aging effects, ect. https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article-abstract/52/9/285/1890842
Review of effects poor nutrition has on individuals: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/87/5/1107/4650128
Review on inequality between classes in food choice: https://www.bmj.com/content/314/7093/1545.short
Perspective on social inequality leading to poor food choices for caloric: requirementshttps://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article-abstract/67/suppl_1/S36/1872742
Specific to Europe (ranges North to South) showing consumption of veggies and fruits: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/disparities-in-vegetable-and-fruit-consumption-european-cases-from-the-north-to-the-south/46AE951C118D73F04B1526E32B512640
Study done on 45 neighbors (all Women) to see how food conscious, aware and influenced by monetary status these women were: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/socioeconomic-inequalities-in-womens-fruit-and-vegetable-intakes-a-multilevel-study-of-individual-social-and-environmental-mediators/24DA84B9771329992A316D033D7374C7 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linchukbb (talk • contribs) 17:31, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Bogdan's contributions section
Linchukbb (talk) 18:16, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
1) proposition to remove or rephrase introductory paragraph,
2) proposition to incorporate an outline organized by social classes
3) IDEA: Better, more clearly and thoroughly address processed vs. unprocessed foods
- role of each type of food in the diet of each social class
- health effects of eating processed vs. unprocessed foods
- Possibly create separate section or sub-section titled health effects of Processed and unprocessed foods?
4) IDEA: Address history of issue?
- research and address the fact the currently, in the USA at least, poor people (lower class) rarely if ever starve to death but rather are obese because of the foods they consume, whereas in history poor people (lower class) starved and where very skinny.
5) IDEA: Address general issue of social class differences in food consumption beyond the USA 6) Changed description of 1st photo to "middle class family meal"
Linchukbb (talk) 19:25, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Below is my test page
Food consumption of social classes
The purpose of this article is to show how similarities and differences of what people eat amongst the upper, middle, and lower classes; however, there is no clear distinction where one class begins and where another class ends. One common preconception is that upper and middle class people eat better and more healthy foods than those of the lower class. The question is then what are healthy foods and what are unhealthy food; that seems subjective and relative to each individual. In history, lower class people died from hunger. Today that is much less common; many lower class people are overweight. People eat unhealthy foods in both the upper and middle classes as well. One nuance is that lower class people lack access to many foods accessible to upper and middle class people.
- How do upper class eat?+ example and cited source
- How they obtain food? (self sustaining; in exchange for money)
- Diet example + cited source
- quality of diet (luxurious overall quality; limitless variety)
- Food availability example + cited source
- How do middle class eat?+ example and cited source
- How they obtain food? (self sustaining; in exchange for money)
- Diet example + cited source
- quality of diet (moderate overall quality; moderate variety)
- Food availability example + cited source
- How do lower class eat? + example and cited source
- How is food obtained? (food stamps, government help, etc.)
- Diet example + cited source
- quality of diet (poor overall quality; lacking in variety)
- Food availability example + cited source
Global
In the United States
People tend to define types of foods as belonging to a certain class based on how expensive (or inexpensive) they are.[1] In a study done on students who were asked to categorize restaurant menu items into each of the different social classes, students considered cheap, simple meals lower-class while meals that were much more expensive and came with a choice of wine were considered upper-class.[1]
Since the early 2000s, restaurants and fast-food chains have been incorporating gourmet hamburgers into their menus which often consist of high-end or exotic ingredients.[2] While people of all social classes have access to fast-food restaurants that sell "better burgers" (which are burgers that are considered to be of greater quality than the traditional burger), some restaurants sell expensive burgers that are exclusive to those who can afford them.[2]
In Canada
Food-secure Canadians perceive Kraft Dinners as comforting while food insecure Canadians find it discomforting.[3] This is due to the fact that the food-secure Canadians can afford to eat meals other than those made by Kraft, while food-insecure Canadians have very few options. Furthermore, Kraft meal kits are often found at food banks and charities which contributes to the reason why food-insecure people who visit these places find them undesirable.[3]
References
Further reading
Linchukbb (talk) 20:16, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
- ^ a b Wright, Wynne; Ransom, Elizabeth. "STRATIFICATION ON THE MENU: USING RESTAURANT MENUS TO EXAMINE SOCIAL CLASS". Teaching Sociology. 33.3: 310–316.
- ^ a b Caldwell, Mark. "The Rise of the Gourmet Hamburger". Contexts. 13.3.
- ^ a b Rock, Melanie; Mcintyre, Lynn; Rondeau, Krista. "Discomforting Comfort Foods: Stirring Pots on Kraft Dinner and Social Inequality in Canada". Agriculture and Human Values. 26.3: 167–76.