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One key element in the development of regional and global food systems is the corresponding changes in food consumption patterns. The "modernization" of food consumption is encouraged by businesses and policy makers alike. For example, in China, change and growth in food consumption behaviours are promoted as a means for improving nutritional well-being, promoting economic growth via expanding consumer demand, and appeasing citizens. The objective of this paper is to investigate the pattern of dissemination of modern food consumption in contemporary China. It utilizes Sklair's notion of the "culture-ideology of consumption" to differentiate between Chinese consumers according to whether their food consumption patterns are more or less modern. (...) The data used in this analysis were obtained in a food consumption survey in metropolitan Qingdao, People's Republic of China. Results indicate that a modern culture-ideology of food consumption is being built around high-income consumers who sometimes shop at supermarkets, rather than through advertising or generational differences in consumption. (J Contemp China/DÜI-Sch)

To study whether mail surveys can be used successfully for cross-national research, data were analyzed from a total design method (TDM) mail survey about food consumption administered in the summer of 1988 to residents in Seattle, Wash, & Kobe, Japan. Response rates (N = 669 or 57.5% for Seattle & 748 or 55.6% for Kobe) & patterns were similar, demonstrating the utility of the TDM social exchange approach & culturally sensitive survey design. 1 Table, 1 Figure, 21 References. Modified AA

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Fighting Over Food: Change in the Agrifood System -- Contributors -- part I. conceptual framework -- 1. Agency and Resistance in the Sociology of Agriculture and Food -- 2. Agency and the Agrifood System -- 3. resistance, agency, and counterwork: a theoretical positioning -- PART II MAKING ROOM FOR AGENCY -- 4 counterhegemony or bourgeois piggery? food politics and the case of foodshare -- 5 resistance, redistribution, and power in the fair trade banana initiative -- 6 sustaining outrage: cultural capital, strategic location, and motivating sensibilities in the u.s. anti-genetic engineering movement -- 7 social life and transformation in salmon fisheries and aquaculture -- PART III CONSTRAINTS TO AGENCY -- 8 infertile ground: the struggle for a new puerto rican food system -- 9 possibilities for revitalizing local agriculture: evidence from four counties in washington state -- 10 consumers and citizens in the global agrifood system: the cases of new zealand and south africa in the global red meat chain -- conclusion: from mindful eating to structural change -- INDEX