(IS)HRANA KAO SOCIOLOŠKI PROBLEM – STARA TEMA ILI NOVA DISCIPLINA?
FOOD AND EATING AS A SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEM – AN OLD ISSUE OR A NEW DISCIPLINE?

Summary/Abstract: For the last several decades, sociological interest in researching food systems, food regimes and foodways increases. In researching food, sociology relies both on other sciences (such as history, anthropology, ethnology, agrotechnology, agrieconomics, psychology,nutritional sciences, genetics), well established sociological disciplines (sociology of labour/family, rural sociology), but also emerging ones (sociology of tourism/emotions). Despite significant progress in development of sociological knowledge on food and eating (concepts, different theoretical aproaches, methods, institutionalisation), we are still arguing whether a) are we talking of an old or a new sociological topic and b) are we dealing with the emerging sociological discipline or just another sociological issue. Presented dilemmas are accompanied by a seria of additional issues such as justification of sociological approach in food studies, sociological contributions to the food reseaarch, but also sociological knowledge in general. Also, there is a question whether and how sociological knowledge can help in developing various public policies relationg food and eating. This paper is an attempt to provide additional insight into abovementioned issues and dilemmas.

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