Preface for instructors -- Preface for students -- Acknowledgements -- A day in the life of your jeans : using our stuff to discover sociology -- Surviving (and thriving) in consumer culture -- You are what you eat: culture, norms and values -- Fast-food blues: work in a global …
The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. T…
Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices -- whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, takeout or homemade, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal -- serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the cas…
Magazine articles and self-improvement books tell us that our food choices serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes reveals that they say more about where we come from and who we would like to be. Interviews with Canadian families in both rural a…
Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices -- whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, takeout or homemade, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal -- serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the cas…