Typology of Social Paradigm: Literature Review of Tourist’s Gastronomic Experience
Typology of Social Paradigm: Literature Review of Tourist’s Gastronomic Experience

Author(s): Dora Rašan, Kristina Pilko
Subject(s): Tourism, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Experience economy; Gastronomic experience; Paradigm; Content analysis
Summary/Abstract: In an examination of the tourist’s gastronomic experience, scientific experts approach it in different ways, depending on the research paradigm to which they belong. In scientific literature, there are paradigms such as positivism, constructivism, criticism, postmodernism, and transmodernism. The purpose of this study was to analyze 55 scientific articles on the tourist’s gastronomic experience according to key terms (ontology, epistemology, and methodology) and thus determine their affiliation to the appropriate paradigm. The empirical research results indicate that there are no studies of postmodernism and transmodernism, but there are studies of positivist (70.91%), critical (18.18%), and constructivist (10.91%) research views. Therefore, in future research, scientists should direct their gaze precisely in the direction of these paradigms. Further research findings indicate that the largest number of analyzed studies published in the last three years is in Asia (40%), North America (34.55%), and Europe (18.18%) where the authors predominantly apply a quantitative research approach (69.09%). The contribution of this research is reflected in the improved theoretical knowledge of the researched issues as well as the application of the same in determining the papers with regard to the type of paradigm to which the authors of selected papers belong. Also, this study is the first in conducting a paradigmatic analysis of gastronomic tourism studies.

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