Changes in the Practice of Eating
By A. Warde, Shu-Li Cheng, W. Olsen, Dale Southerton. 2007
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This article examines changes in aspects of the eating habits of the populations of five countries between the early 1970s and the end of the 1990s. Time-use diary data provide the main evidence, which is subjected to techniques of statistical description and regression analysis. The study of France, UK, USA, Norway and the Netherlands shows considerable national variation in patterns of food preparation, eating at home and eating out. Each of these components of the practice of eating is examined for indications of whether there are any tendencies towards dedifferentiation within countries or convergence across countries. There are some common patterns across countries, notably a decline in the amount of time devoted to food preparation. Time spent on eating at home reduces in all countries except France. In the USA, time devoted to domestic food preparation and consumption is minimal. Internal differentiation shows continuities — of gender divisions and age-related behaviour — but also new emergent tendencies — with the presence of children and levels of cultural capital becoming significant predictors of behaviour. It is maintained that the analysis of time-use provides a useful framework for comparing practices in different countries and that the variation revealed might best be understood in terms of different modes of institutionalization of consumption.
Subfields: Food Science, Sociology and Political Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
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- Commensality, society and culture (2011, background): “Of all the developed countries, France has experienced the least decline in time spent eating (OECD, 2009; Warde et al., 2007).”
- Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices (2013, background): “This is, for example, observed in empirical studies of practice enthusiasts, such as gastronomes who stand out in empirical accounts of the practice of eating because they exhibit longer durations, slower tempos and greater frequencies of eating out than do other social groups (Warde et al., 2007).”
- Understanding the timing of energy demand through time use data: Time of the day dependence of social practices (2017, unknown): “…in the literature: the move from lower frequency and higher duration bathing to higher frequency lower duration showering [19], the change in patterns of consumption in Turkey associated with the import of teabags [20], and the diverse eating timings and durations in different countries [21].”