{"id":64429,"date":"2014-10-22T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=64429"},"modified":"2015-08-18T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T04:34:13","slug":"whats-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/10\/22\/whats-for-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s for Breakfast?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite examples of social construction is that we eat hot links\u00a0for breakfast and pork chops for dinner. Both pig, but\u00a0morning sausage seems odd in the evening and pork chops for breakfast would be a decidedly deviant sunrise\u00a0treat.<\/p>\n

A pretty\u00a0set of photos<\/a> at The New York Times<\/em> illustrates this social construction of breakfast food by highlighting the first meal of the day for children in seven parts of the world. It would be fun — for those of you teaching classes — to show some of them to students and ask them to guess (1)\u00a0the meal of the day and (2) the age of the eater. Here’s one example:<\/p>\n

Chitedza, Malawi<\/strong>:\u00a0cornmeal porridge with soy and groundnut flour; deep-fried cornmeal fritters with\u00a0onions, garlic and chiles; boiled sweet potato and pumpkin; juice\u00a0of\u00a0dried hibiscus and sugar.<\/p>\n

\"2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

See the rest\u00a0at The Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

See also our Social Construction of Flavor<\/a> Pinterest board. Lots of neat stuff there!<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite examples of social construction is that we eat hot links\u00a0for breakfast and pork chops for dinner. Both pig, but\u00a0morning sausage seems odd in the evening and pork chops for breakfast would be a decidedly deviant sunrise\u00a0treat. A pretty\u00a0set of photos at The New York Times illustrates this social construction of breakfast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,223,2124,1813,1821,8083,1807,293],"class_list":["post-64429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-childrenyouth","tag-foodagriculture","tag-nation-brazil","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-malawi","tag-nation-turkey","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/10\/22.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67735,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64429\/revisions\/67735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}