Beyond the Normative Family Meal Promotion: A Narrative Review of Qualitative Results about Ordinary Domestic Commensality
| Autor: | Carol Anne Hartwick-Pflaum, Georgia Middleton, Isabelle Mallon, Maxime Michaud, John Coveney, Fairley Le Moal |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre Max Weber (CMW), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Flinders University [Adelaide, Australia], École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
030309 nutrition & dietetics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject practices lcsh:Medicine Review ethnography Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences health norm 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) conflicts medicine Narrative Family 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Meals media_common 0303 health sciences Family Characteristics [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology Public health lcsh:R digestive oral and skin physiology Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Emotion work Feeding Behavior interactions [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology Family life 3. Good health family meal Normative Family Relations Social psychology emotion work Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, MDPI, 2021, 18 (6), pp.3186. ⟨10.3390/ijerph18063186⟩ International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 3186, p 3186 (2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, 18 (6), pp.3186. ⟨10.3390/ijerph18063186⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 1661-7827 |
| Popis: | International audience; There exists a normative representation of family meals in contemporary Western societies which is promoted as imperative through public health programs, larger discourses and by some studies in the nutritional and public health research fields. Family meals, also called domestic commensality, are represented as convivial events and are associated with positive health and wellbeing outcomes but there is minimal evidence to show they are beneficial for family members and it is not known which aspect of the family meal could be responsible for these alleged benefits. This normative family meal image is based on a representation of the family as a peaceful unit exempt from external constraints. This narrative literature review of qualitative studies of family meals seeks to put forward the underlying premises of this representation and compare it with reports about actual practices. The results emphasize that eating together is still practiced and remains valued by family members, which is in contrast to discourses lamenting the decline of the family meal. However, the valorisation and recurrence of family meals depends on class, gender and cultural positions. There is a gap between the norm of healthy or convivial and achievable family meals, which can reinforce the so-called “mental load” and “emotion work” of those in charge of feeding the family and heighten inequalities within the household. In fact, there are many challenges to family meals which originate from external constraints or are inherent aspects of family life. The results from this review suggest that we should focus on family meals by taking into account the food work surrounding it and focussing on the interactional aspects of family meals. Ethnographic methods allow the researcher to observe the diversities and complexities of commensality as well as family dynamics and, in doing so, could provide more realistic representations of eating within the family. |
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