Sociology of Food (SOC-0076)

Spring 2025 · SOC 0076 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Food through the lenses of identity, meaning, community, and power. How food nourishes and harms people, their bodies and minds, their communities, and the larger world. Topics may include the strange careers of common food products (e.g., white bread, coffee, fast food), food and media, cultural food traditions, and sites of struggle (fair trade, food sovereignty, carcerality). Examination of personal relationships to food.

Course codes: SOC-0076, SOC 0076, SOC0076, SOC-76, SOC 76, SOC76

• 01-LEC (Lecture) — Freeden Blume Oeur