La mirada sociológica hacia la alimentación: análisis crítico del desarrollo de la investigación en el campo alimentario

• Díaz Méndez, Cecilia ^[1] ; García Espejo, Isabel ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Oviedo

     Universidad de Oviedo

     Oviedo, España

     
• Localización: Política y sociedad, ISSN-e 1988-3129, ISSN 1130-8001, Vol. 51, Nº 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Herramientas para el estudio de la alimentación contemporánea), págs. 15-49
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5209/rev_POSO.2014.v51.n1.42472
• Títulos paralelos:
  • A sociological perception of food: a critical analysis of research developments in the study of food
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  • español

    La Sociología de la Alimentación es unárea de trabajo relativamente reciente que sólo en los últimos años ha cobradorelevancia científica internacional como disciplina de estudio (Mennell,Murcotrt and van Otterloo, 1992; McIntosh, 1996; Beardsworth and Keil, 1997;  Germov and Williams, 2000; Koc, Sumner andWilson; 2012). El retraso en la constitución de un cuerpo científico propio esresultado de un conjunto de factores: la diversidad de temáticas existentes,las dificultades metodológicas para afrontar un campo de naturalezamultidimensional o la escasez de estudios comparados explican, al  menos parcialmente, su posición académica.Este artículo resume la forma en que la sociología afronta el estudio de laalimentación. Para ello se ha realizado un estudio de las publicacionescientíficas de los últimos 20 años a través de los artículos sobre alimentaciónpublicados en las revistas de Sociología del Journal Citantion Report. Estetrabajo permite presentar la panorámica de los estudios de Sociología de la Alimentación  en el ámbito internacional y realizar algunaspropuestas críticas sobre su desarrollo. Tras este recorrido se puede afirmarque la  Sociología de la Alimentación cuentacon un ámbito de estudio propio, aunque con frecuencia se mueva en lasfronteras de la Sociología Rural y la Sociología del Consumo.

  • English

    The Sociology of Food is a relatively new area of work which only in recent years has gained international scientific relevance as a discipline of study (Mennell, Murcotrt and van Otterloo, 1992; McIntosh, 1996; Beardsworth and Keil, 1997; Germov and Williams, 2000; Koc, Sumner and Wilson, 2012). The delay in the formation of a specific scientific body is the result of a combination of factors: the diversity of subjects, the methodological difficulties to face a multidimensional field of study, or the scarcity of comparative studies. This paper summarizes how sociology undertakes the study of food. We made a study of the scientific articles on food that have been published in the last 20 years in the journals of Sociology that appear in the Journal Citation Report. This paper allows us to present an overview of the studies on the Sociology of Food at the international level and to make some critical proposals as to their evolution. As a result, we may conclude that the Sociology of Food occupies a specific field of study, although it frequently overlaps the fields of Rural Sociology and Sociology of Consumption.

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