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Tables of Contents for Consumption, Food and Taste
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Acknowledgements
vi
1
Abbreviations
vii
Introduction
1
4
PART I ISSUES OF TASTE
5
50
1 Consumption, Taste and Social Change
7
15
1.1 Sociology and consumption
7
1
1.2 Consumption: from habitus to freedom
8
3
1.3 Social forces and the transformation of distinction
11
3
1.4 Explanations of changing consumption
14
4
1.5 The complexity of consumption
18
3
1.6 Conclusion
21
1
2 The New Manners of Food: Trends and their Sociological Interpretation
22
21
2.1 The sociology of food
22
2
2.2 Diminishing contrasts and increasing variation: Mennell's projection
24
5
2.3 Four sociological theses on changing food habits
29
12
2.4 Conclusion
41
2
3 Measuring Change in Taste
43
12
3.1 Introduction
43
1
3.2 Representations of food: the contents of women's magazines
44
5
3.3 Household food expenditure
49
2
3.4 Household arrangements and eating: a survey in Greater Manchester
51
4
PART II INDICATORS OF TASTE: CHANGING FOOD HABITS
55
100
4 Novelty and Tradition
57
21
4.1 Change and continuity in the British diet
57
2
4.2 Novelty
59
2
4.3 Tradition
61
6
4.4 The antinomy dissected: the ambivalence of modernity
67
3
4.5 Novelty, custom and generation
70
5
4.6 Summary
75
3
5 Health and Indulgence
78
19
5.1 Disciplining the body and pampering the soul
78
1
5.2 Health in the recipe columns
79
1
5.3 Policies for health
80
8
5.4 Bodies and weight control: discipline and choice
88
2
5.5 Indulgence
90
2
5.6 The bodily condition
92
2
5.7 Summary
94
3
6 Economy and Extravagance
97
29
6.1 Material resources
97
1
6.2 Income and food consumption
98
10
6.3 Class differences over time
108
5
6.4 The middle class and distinction
113
5
6.5 Lifestyle and class
118
5
6.6 Summary
123
3
7 Convenience and Care
126
29
7.1 Commodification: production and consumption
126
5
7.2 Convenience or care: advertising the antinomy
131
2
7.3 Convenience and care in the magazines
133
7
7.4 Domestic divisions of labour
140
10
7.5 Intensification, commodification and domestic life
150
3
7.6 Summary
153
2
PART III INTERPRETATIONS OF TASTE
155
50
8 The Reconstruction of Taste
157
23
8.1 Thematic trends in representation
157
6
8.2 Trends and official statistics
163
3
8.3 Increased variety and diminishing contrasts?
166
6
8.4 Antinomies and the structural anxieties of late modernity
172
6
8.5 Conclusion: practice and representation
178
2
9 Theories of Consumption and the Case of Food
180
25
9.1 The specialness of food
180
1
9.2 Food trends and tendencies in consumption: undistinguished difference?
181
7
9.3 Food and theories of consumption
188
2
9.4 Variety and commodification
190
6
9.5 Towards a sociological analysis of consumption
196
7
9.6 In conclusion
203
2
Notes
205
5
Appendix: Technical Details about Methodology
210
1
Magazines
210
3
The Family Expenditure Survey and discriminant analysis
213
4
Greater Manchester survey, 1990
217
4
References
221
6
Index
227