The contextual understandings of eating: A practice theoretical approach to Swedish business travellers’ meals

Sundqvist, Joachim; Bengs, Carita

doi:10.1016/j.ijgfs.2021.100327

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“…Bengs, who holds Sweden’s only chair with an explicitly food-sociological orientation, is the only scholar in the sample who is engaged in food sociology even though her dissertation treated food as a social lens. We marked her as ‘yes’, although her research output on food topics is limited to just one article (Sundqvist and Bengs, 2021), co-authored with her previous PhD candidate as a part of his dissertation (Sundqvist, 2020). Her engagement with food sociology might thus primarily be guided by an interest in what food tells us about other social phenomena, and the lion’s share of her publications do not concern food.…”

Section: Organising Food Sociology: Demarcations and Academic Career ...mentioning

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Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology

Bååth

Neuman

2021

Current Sociology

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Sociology’s tendency to branch into applied scientific disciplines is regularly debated. This debate focuses either on the organisation of sociology in academic institutions or on how the content of sociologically informed interdisciplinary research diverges from disciplinary sociology. This article bridges these debates in a study of the sociology of food in Sweden. The aim is to analyse how Swedish food sociology reflects the tension between disciplinary sociology and interdisciplinary research. The data comprise the doctoral dissertations and post-PhD career paths of Swedish sociologists whose dissertations are about food. The article finds that these dissertations treat food either as an inherently social phenomenon or as a social lens (i.e. a social phenomenon viewed as instrumental for analysing something else). Second, it is found that sociologists whose dissertations treated food as an inherently social phenomenon were more likely to pursue careers in food sociology but also to hold affiliations outside of sociology departments. The article concludes that the academic locus of Swedish food sociology is organised outside sociology departments but that its approaches are not necessarily any less sociological. Thus, the analysis questions the basis for arguments that interdisciplinary research represents a threat to the critical and analytical core of sociology.

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Section: Organising Food Sociology: Demarcations and Academic Career ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology

Bååth

Neuman

2021

Current Sociology

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Gastronomic experiences: Motives, activities, and teleology

Sundqvist

2023

International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science

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When you walk the trail, you start to fantasize about food, right? Teleologies and understandings of hikers’ meal practices while hiking in Arctic Sweden

Sundqvist

2023

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

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The contextual understandings of eating: A practice theoretical approach to Swedish business travellers’ meals

Cited by 3 publications

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Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology

Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology

Gastronomic experiences: Motives, activities, and teleology

When you walk the trail, you start to fantasize about food, right? Teleologies and understandings of hikers’ meal practices while hiking in Arctic Sweden

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