Do People Agree on What Foods are Prestigious? Evidence of a Single, Shared Cultural Model of Food in Urban Ethiopia and Rural Brazil.

To what extent do people agree on the meaning of foods, and does this vary by socioeconomic status, demographics, or household type? Addressing this question is critical for testing hypotheses about the relationship between food insecurity, food meaning, and mental well-being because it speaks directly to the social implications of food behaviors. In this study, we test for a shared cultural model of food meaning in two diverse settings: urban Ethiopia and rural Brazil. Using freelist and pile sort data from 63 respondents in Ethiopia and 62 from Brazil, we show strong consensus on the prestige value of various key food items in each context. Further, consensus varies little across household composition, food security status, and age and gender. This suggests that, in these two settings, consumption of widely available foods is an act that has both biological and social consequences.

Representación Social del Odontólogo / Social representation of the dentists

Este documento pretende desde una mirada sociológica comprender la realidad cotidiana Odontólogo– Individuo. Esto se logra a partir del entendimiento de las representacion social en el pensamiento complejo. Por eso se debe tener en cuenta que el sentido común guía las objetivaciones y significados en el conocimiento, y sobretodo construye intersubjetividad.

The following paper tries to understand the daily reality of a Dentist – Individual from a sociological point of view. All of this is achieved starting from the understanding of the social representations that are immersed in the complex thought. It is very important to take into account that common senseguides objectiveness and meaning of knowledge and above all builds intersubjectivity.