Destructuration or continuity? The daily rhythm of eating in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1997 and 2012.

摘要: There is a widely shared belief that contemporary eating culture undergoing process of ‘destructuration’ in which collective norms guiding temporal, social, and spatial aspects as well cuisine will decline or disappear. From another theoretical perspective one could argue regular patterns are quite resistant to change because they functionally necessary for the organization maintenance social actions everyday life. Using questionnaire data from Denmark, Finland, Norway Sweden years 1997 2012 we investigate whether culturally timing rhythms has disappeared declined. At population-wide level, find clear national peaks (occurring around breakfast, lunch, lesser extent dinner) during great number, even majority, people eat. These basic nationally specific clearly identifiable 2012, only small changes were found have occurred over period studied. Subsequent examination within-country differences daily identified sub-population with very similar features all countries. The deviates temporally eating, it conventional meal types such breakfast lunch skipped higher extent, giving what call an ‘unsynchronized’ pattern. Interestingly, pattern become more common While growth this may be sign coming destructuration culture, further analysis suggests not case. Thus, socio-structural explanations unsynchronized eating. It related coordination work, tends abandoned life course: establishment family, old age, tend synchronize their habits activities society. Coupling relatively modest pattern, bearing mind minority phenomenon, encompassing approximately quarter population all-encompassing temporal develop. Additional shows idea simultaneous rupture on several dimensions (temporal, spatial, manners, cuisine) doubtful. although, individuals rhythm lack “manners” eat unhealthily, do display degree Indeed, leads fewer events, contradicts ‘grazing’ theory altogether.