COMS 477 Midterm review

Question 1

What are the 4 Core components or critical food literacy?

Answer 1

1) Knowledge and food systems
2) Food procurement with mindfulness
3) Basic food and preparation skills
4) Social networks

Question 2

Define and explain Habitus

Answer 2

• Refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital and is made up of the deeply ingrained habits, skills and disposition that we possess
• Habitus is a feel for a certain social situation/habitus that allows to navigate those situations

Question 3

What is Habitus mistaken for?

Answer 3

Can be mistaken for individuals preference rather than a social constructed development

Question 4

Explain a person with high level of cultural capital influence on taste?

Answer 4

They are likely to to determine what constitutes “taste” in society

Question 5

What are the symbolic elements of cultural capital

Answer 5

• skills
• tastes
• posture
• clothing
• mannerism
  that one acquire being apart of a particular social class

Question 6

Who defines Symbolic Violence and what does it mean?

Answer 6

Bourdieu calls the acceptance of dominant forms of taste
Symbolic violence denies the dominated classes a means to defining there own worlds

Question 7

What are children taught from an early age?

Answer 7

What there taste look, sound and taste like so they are entrenched in one class from a early age and guided them towards there social class

Question 8

What are food systems?

Answer 8

includes all of the actors and processes that bring food from the landscape to the table and back again, as well as the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts that shape these pathways

Question 9

what is food scape?

Answer 9

refers to the spaces and places in which people produce, acquire, eat, talk and think about food

Question 10

What is food cultures

Answer 10

is the meaning of different food choices, food habits, restrictions, market choices and policies (Koc, Sumner and Wilson

Question 11

What is food studies

Answer 11

is a new field of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities that examines linkages between these diverse components of the food system.

Question 12

What are interdisciplinary studies

Answer 12

integrate two or more disciplines into a single approach to scholarship. (emerged after the 1970’

Question 13

What are the 4 major lenses through which scholars view the food scape

Answer 13

The environment: rising concerns about the impact of food systems in the environment (pollution, climate change, sustainability etc…)
o Political economy: historical processes or systems shape institutions in ways that reproduce patterns of social imbalance and conflict in society (governance of food, global food systems, food sovereignty)
o Society and culture: Intersections between food society and culture (race studies, food identity, food justice movement)
o And human health: Linkages between food, health and ag policy (food related, diseases, food choices, food literacy)

Question 14

What is anthropocene

Answer 14

The predomination influence of humans on earth

Question 15

Climate Change Intersects with many environmental topics in food studies, what are they?

Answer 15

Soil erosion from intensive farming
o Deforestation of landscapes to make way for agriculture practices
o Overfishing
o Water pollution from chemical pesticides and fertilizers
o Loss of water-based habitats leading to rapid loss of plant and animal species

Question 16

What are alternative food initiatives

Answer 16

sustainable food practices

Question 17

what are food regimes

Answer 17

Refers to the historical periods in the arrangement of the world food systems that corresponds to patterns of stability and change in global political structures and the capitalist economy.

Question 18

what are food ways

Answer 18

set of practices, ideas, and habits that coalesce around food and its movement through food systems

Question 19

what it culinary capital

Answer 19

presentation of food experiences and knowledge that elevates certain people over others

Question 20

What does interectionality

Answer 20

recognizes that identity cannot be sperated into mutually exclusive groups of ability, age, class, ethnicity etc… instead people experience these facets of identity all at the same time.

Question 21

What is food security?

Answer 21

Refers to which people have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious foods that meets their needs and food prefernces for an active and healthy lifestyle

Question 22

what are food deserts

Answer 22

people that have limited access to food

Question 23

what is habitus

Answer 23

how taste preferences become internalized. taste come to feel natural, even though they are cultural products of our classed upbringings

Question 24

what are schemas

Answer 24

deep largly unconscious networks of neural association that facilitate perception, interpretation and action (culture schemas can influence food behaviours at a less conscious levels)

Question 25

What are ethical foodscapes

Answer 25

food is seen as a means to addess collective challanges like sustainability, animal welfare, hunger, labour right and social justice

Question 26

what are alternative hedonism

Answer 26

involves new conseptions of the good life and finding pleasure in alternative ways of living like biking rather then driving or eating at home from your garden

Question 27

who is bourieu

Answer 27

french sociologist

Question 28

what are the three forms of cultural capital

Answer 28

embodied: ones accent or dialect
objectified: luxury car
institutionalized: credientials

Question 29

what are the 4 main food literacy

Answer 29

knowledge of food and food systems
food procurement with mindfulness
basic food prep skills
social network

Question 30

what does CCHS

Answer 30

canadian community health survey

Question 31

what are HFSSM

Answer 31

Household food security survey module

Question 32

what has the HFSSM used for

Answer 32

to monitor food insecurity

Question 33

do food insecurity rates rates between rural and urban

Answer 33

No

Question 34

What is food sovereignty

Answer 34

the right of peoples and nations to control their own food and agriculture systems, including their own markets

Answer 35

focuses on food for people
values food providers
localizes food systems
puts control locally
build knowledge
works with nature

Question 36

N EXAM: What might be some of the issues with the food security frame?

Answer 36

Its an uncritical approach to the industrial food system
o It’s a band aid soloution to a systematic problem
o Many of the solutions to food security are ineffective
o Encourages neoliberal (individual take responsibility)
o It encourages a free agenda that pursues a global, industrialized for agriculture