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Health, Food and Social Inequality: Critical Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food

Health, Food and Social Inequality: Critical Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food

Mahoney, Carolyn

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

Medical ReferencePublic HealthGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138801291
ISBN13: 9781138801295
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 1 2015
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns.

This book supplies a fresh social scientific perspective on the health consequences of poor diet. Shifting the focus from individual behaviour to the food supply and the way it is developed and marketed, it discusses what is known about the shaping of food behaviours by both social theory and psychology. Exploring how knowledge of social identities and health beliefs and behaviours are used by the food industry, Health, Food and Social Inequality outlines, for example, how commercial marketing firms supply food companies with information on where to locate snack and fast foods whilst also advising governments on where to site health services for those consuming such foods disproportionately. Giving a sociological underpinning to Nudge theory while simultaneously critiquing it in the context of diet and health, this book explores how social class is an often overlooked factor mediating both individual dietary practice and food marketing strategies.

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