The following questions are meant to be answered from the main text for the clas
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The following questions are meant to be answered from the main text for the class, Food and Society.
1. Cultural capital marks individuals as belonging to ‘particular social class’. It includes _________.
a. idiosyncratic personal preferences
b. manners
c. social skills
d. all of the above
2. A food experience that is often seen on TV which is based more on fantasy than reality, which ‘evokes the unattainable’, which shifts attention from those who like to cook to those who like to eat, is best described as _______________.
a. a food fetish
b. a spectacle
c. false consciousness
d. entertainment
3. A restaurant relies on much of the labor being done ‘behind the scenes’. It also requires much ________________ which “requires one to induce or suppress feelings in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others” (Hochschild 2003, 7) .
a. reserve
b. patience
c. empathic labor
d. emotional labor
4. In the text the authors employ the concept of ___________________ to analyze how claims, definitions, and beliefs are created, maintained, documented, or destroyed. This differs from other approaches which do not critically question how beliefs are arrived at, how opinions are formed, or even how scientists generate research and knowledge.
a. social construction
b. claims-making
c. quantitative analysis
d. dialectical interactions
5. Those with a BMI index between 25 and 30 (which is considered overweight) are _________ likely to die than those of ‘normal’ weight and those who are ‘extremely obese’ with a BMI of 35 or higher.
a. more
b. less
c. equally
d. penguins
6. ‘Murketing’ is a term that describes the blurring of the boundary between ___________ and __________.
a. advertising; television
b. marketing; advertising
c. advertising; government
d. advertising; everyday life
7. ‘Consumer sovereignty’ was defined in the book as ________________.
a. a myth regarding the consumer’s freedom of choice
b. the ability of consumers to buy what they desire
c. the ability of a consumer to decide their own consumption choices
d. a strategy to negotiate the desired outcome of choice
8. A region of a city where it is difficult to buy quality food is called a _____________.
a. food wasteland
b. hinterland
c. food desert
d. dearth region
9. The ‘commercialization of childhood’ is a concept used by the authors to describe how _______.
a. children are increasingly targets of branding and marketing efforts
b. childhood is utilized by marketers to sell products through nostalgia
c. childhood is utilized as a site of agency to achieve goals of consumer sovereignty
d. children are buying more products
10. A process by which farmers are coerced into buying new technologies to increase yield is referred to by the authors as a __________________.
a. production cycle
b. capital investment
c. technology treadmill
d. boondoggle
11. Neoliberalism is a set of practices that in large part are meant to increase economic output while establishing good governance. Which of the following is not an aspect of neoliberalism?
a. privatization of formerly public assets
b. reliance upon ‘market logic’—the idea that the free market knows best
c. deregulation of laws and policies (e.g., environmental laws)
d. opening markets to trade (dropping tariffs, protections, etc.)
e. all are aspects of neoliberalism
12. Hunger (or being hungry) defines a more ______________ psychological discomfort, so scientists often prefer the term ____________ to talk about a chronic inability to access good food.
a. immediate/starvation
b. lasting/food access
c. immediate/food insecurity
d. individual/food landscape
13. The acronym CSA stands for ______________.
a. Community Standards Agriculture
b. Commonly Supported Alliance
c. Community Supported Agriculture
d. Commodity Supported Agriculture
For the following questions, please refer to your lecture notes.
14. In class, I discussed colonialism, and described how I believe the present is ‘postcolonial’. Among other implications, this was tied to ‘world systems theory’ which posits that the world is best understood as being composed of ________, __________, and __________.
a. colonies, empires, and states
b. core, periphery, and semi-periphery
c. states, nations, and international organizations
d. first, second, and third worlds
15. In Agnes Varda’s, The Gleaners and I, there were much different laws regarding _____________ in France that allowed people to perform the act of gleaning.
a. food transportation
b. private property
c. abolition
d. foodways
16. The concept of postcolonialism has been referred to in your book as part the ‘globalization project’. This emphasizes the problematic relationship of globalization to _____________.
a. national development
b. international law
c. supranational organizations such as the European Union
d. the development industry in less developed countries
17. Golden rice is a ____________ high in _____________.
a. organic grain; cortisol
b. organic grain; vitamin d
c. genetically modified organism; vitamin a
d. genetically modified organism; vitamin e
18. The gene-editing technology that, among other things, was discussed in class relating to the possibility of eradicating mosquitoes was named ________________.
a. Cas-9
b. GMO+
c. CRISPR
d. BluGene
Explanation / Answer
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1) Anwer - All the above
Cultural capital refers to the collection of symbolic elements such as skills, tastes, posture, clothing, mannerisms, material belongings, credentials, etc. that one acquires through being part of a particular social class. Sharing similar forms of cultural capital with others—the same taste in movies, for example, or a degree from an Ivy League School—creates a sense of collective identity and group position.
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