Theory of Grocery Shopping Food, Choice and Conflict

Name: Theory of Grocery Shopping Food, Choice and Conflict
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ISBN: 9780857851512

ISBN-10: 0857851519

ISBN-13: 9780857851512

Edition: 2012

Authors: Shelley Koch

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Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shoppingexplores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and retail managers in the US with information transmitted by nutritionists, government employees, financial advisors, journalists, health care providers and marketers, who influence the way we think about and perform the work of shopping for a household's food. The author provides insight into the contradictory messages that shape how consumers provision their households, and details how consumers respond to these messages. The book challenges…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Institutional Ethnography: Using Texts to Examine the Individual-Institutional Connection


Who and Why?



The Economic and Social Context of Grocery Shopping


The Household


Food Experts


Economic Institutions: Supermarket


Supermarket Design


Rise of Marketing and Advertising


Consumer Sovereignty



The Work of Grocery Shopping


Planning


Division of Labor


At the Store


Conclusion



Shopping and the Nutrition Discourse


Nutrition Knowledge


Institutional Agents


Examples of Nutrition Discourse


Shopping for Nutrition


Conclusion



The Efficient Housewife Discourse


Efficient Housewife Discourse


Notes from Real Life


Conclusion



The Consumer Control Discourse


Managers and Practice


Advertisement Production


The Food Show


Know Your Customer


Build Relationships


Notes from Real Life


Conclusion



Competing Discourses and the Work of Food Shopping


Discourses in Contradiction


Social Organization of the Economy


Gendered Economy


Appendix


Bibliography


Index