Comer como atividade de lazer

• Autor(a) principal: Heck, Marina de Camargo
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/2212
• topic: Lazer; Estilo de vida; Gastronomia; Fast-food

There has been an explosion of sociological interest in food, especially in the last decade. Social sciences have turned their attention to an area of expanding social and cultural interest in modern society involving food and the ritual of eating. The material and symbolic richness of the subject suggests an infinite number of issues for a sociological discussion. Industrial society and urbanization have also shown an important economic aspect of the question. Nutritionists and anthropologists have already argued the biological and cultural significance of food from an individual and psychological point of view ¿ tastes and memory ¿ as well as from a social collective perspective ¿ sociability of the meal. This paper touches a few theoretical issues, but it also tries to examine how the proleferation of restaurants and fast food outlets has affected eating habits and created an "eating-out" life-style in post-modern society.