Estudios sobre modelos de consumo: Una visión desde teorías y metodologías

Abstract

In each society, feeding is constructed from a symbolic process that characterizes foods like edible, inserts them in a system of preferences and establishes the forms of preparation and consumption. The description, explanation and prediction of the alimentary behavior present an increasing complexity on the basis of the appearance of new manifestations about well-known factors and new phenomena to know. This article will show the influence of the identity, the relation between supply and consumption, the conditioners of the intake, the subject, the life style, the sensorial dimensions of foods and body discourses for discussing its methodological treatment.