1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996552347503316

Autore

Harvey Mark

Titolo

Qualities of food / / Mark Harvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-3760-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 214 pages)

Collana

New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition

Disciplina

664

Soggetti

Food industry and trade

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin and Alan Warde -- 1. Discovering quality or performing taste? A sociology of the amateur - Geneviève Teil and Antoine Hennion -- 2. Standards of taste and varieties of goodness: the (un)predictability of modern consumption - Jukka Gronow -- 3. Quality in economics, a cognitive perspective - Gilles Allaire -- 4. Social definitions of 'halal' quality: the case of Maghrebi Muslims in France - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler -- 5. Food Agencies as an institutional response to policy failure by the UK and the European Union - David Barling -- 6. Theorising food quality: some key issues in understanding its competitive production and regulation - Terry Marsden -- 7. A new aesthetic of food? Relational reflexivity in the 'alternative' food movement - Jonathan Murdoch and Mara Miele -- 8. The political morality of food: discourses, contestation and alternative consumption -- Roberta Sassatelli -- Conclusion -- Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin and Alan Warde.

Sommario/riassunto

How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good?; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? This book offers some answers to these questions from the perspective of the social sciences.In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a



number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics. -- Provided by publisher.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782809503321

Autore

Bricklin Dan <1951->

Titolo

Bricklin on technology [[electronic resource] /] / Dan Bricklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, IN, : Wiley Pub., Inc., 2009

ISBN

1-282-12204-5

9786612122040

0-470-50058-1

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (515 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/34

303.4834

Soggetti

Computers and civilization

Information technology

System design

Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bricklin on Technology; About the Author; Credits; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Case Studies and Details; Why Delve



Into Details?; The Mindset of an Engineer; Chapter 2: What Will People Pay For?; Cell Phone Use; Photographs; Getting Paid; Self-Expression; Chapter 3: The Recording Industry and Copying; Example from Another Industry; A Book Publisher Speaks; What Happened Since; Legal Issues with Copying; Chapter 4: Leveraging the Crowd; "The Cornucopia of the Commons" Essay; Related Writings; Chapter 5: Cooperation; Dan Ariely, March 2, 2008

Learning About Cooperation from the NavyChapter 6: Blogging and Podcasting: Observations through Their Development; About Blogging; Some General Comments about Creating Personal Material to Share on the Web; I Asked a Question and the World Answered; How Blogging Helped Blogger; Bloggers at the 2004 DNC in Boston; Podcasting; Chapter 7: Tools: My Philosophy about What We Should Be Developing; Some Specific Tools; The Value of Being General Purpose; Chapter 8: Hands On: Tablet and Gestural Computing; Gestures and No Pen; What the Devices of the Future Will Be Like

Looking at the Usability Aspects of a Famous SituationChapter 9: The Long Term; Chapter 10: The PC: Historical Information about an Important Tool; Source Material; Chapter 11: The Wiki: An Interview with Its Inventor; Ward Cunningham, February 14, 2007; Chapter 12: VisiCalc; The VisiCalc Story; Summing It All Up; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a world that divides us, technology creates connection. Cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, personal Web sites-they all join us, however tenuously, to what we value. Is connectivity what we're willing to pay for? Should technology be our servant or a tool that helps us do other things? What can we really learn from Napster? What would intelligent standards for touch-screen user interface look like? How does technology evolve, and what drives that evolution? For Dan Bricklin, technology cannot exist independently of the lives and needs of those who use it. For more than a decade he has s