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Grupo de Investigación en Sociología de la Alimentación

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The accredited Research Group created in 2000 and brought together in 2009 at the Campus of International Excellence, within the Cluster of Biomedicine and Health.

Food and eating have become a matter of public debate in developed societies. Despite having almost no problems linked to lack of food, concern about what people eat has grown. For this reason, Social Sciences have approached food and the changes in eating directly in terms of the modernization of societies. The Group for the Sociology of Food emerged in this context, created in 2000 and integrated in 2009 into the Campus of International Excellence (Cluster of Biomedicine and Health). The group is led by Cecilia Díaz-Mendez, Professor of Sociology and is made up of seven members from the University of Oviedo and six researchers from other Spanish universities.

The group’s main research objective is describing and analysing trends in changes in food and nutrition and the social conditioning factors that affect eating habits in modern societies. We aim to increase understanding of what determines these changes and their consequences, and to analyse how the process of modernization of societies affects the population’s eating and health.

The group currently includes a team of researchers from Spanish universities with a strong background in the study of food and nutrition, eating and health, all with a social perspective but different approaches: some are studying the area of production and agri-food systems, others consider the political or economic science involved, others have focused on studying consumption or the dynamics followed by agri-food businesses, and almost all have carried out microsocial studies on social change and inequality.

The gender perspective informs a good part of our work, as does historical research, and both of these approaches act as fundamental pillars for analysis and interpretation to structure our empirical studies. A priority for the group is conducting comparative studies on eating habits in different countries and analysing policy initiatives (political action) within a context of global food governance. These factors have led us to complete the team with researchers from outside Spain in each of the research projects we conduct.

We have a Sociological Food Observatory as a research tool at the group’s disposal for our work. This offers us the oppotunity of responding to the requests of businesses and institutions working in areas that affect the agri-food chain. Dr Isabel García Espejo is the coordinator of this service which uses the department’s CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing) and CAWI (Computer-Aided Web Interviewing) systems.

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Cecilia Díaz Méndez (Director)
Laura Cabiedes Miragaya
María Isabel García Espejo
Núria Hernández Nanclares
María Amparo Novo Vázquez
José Manuel Parrilla Fernández
María Trinidad Pascual Fernández
Sandra Sánchez Sánchez
Hans Peter van den Broek
Researchers at Other Universities
Manuel Javier Callejo Gallego
Cristóbal Gómez Benito
Paloma Herrero Racionero
Carmen María Lozano Cabedo
Maycon Noremberg Schubert
Guadalupe Ramos Truchero
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María González Álvarez
Sonia Otero Estévez
Visitors
Jessica Paddock
Claudia M. Prado-Meza
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1.- Food and eating in modern societies
2.- Food and social structure
3.- Power, politics, and social movements concerned with food
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Articles
Books
Scientific meetings
Socialimen Conference
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Department of Sociology (University of Oviedo)
Faculty of Economics and Business
Department Building, 2nd floor
El Cristo Campus, s/n
33006 Oviedo
Spain.

Telephone:
(34) 985 10 50 42 / (34) 985 10 49 98

E-mail:
gsociologiaali@uniovi.es

Quick links

  • University of Oviedo
  • Research Groups of the University of Oviedo
  • Monograph (Caixa Studies Series): Food, Eating, and Health
  • The Spanish National Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition (ACHM-E)
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Environment. Food Consumption Panel
  • Iris Soci-aliment Network (Red Iris Soci-aliment): Newsfeed on food and social sciences
  • Chair of Global Food Governance Studies

Keywords

sociological analysis, sociological study, surveys, food, consumer studies, food consumption, food knowledge, health, obesity, gender roles.

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