Exam 2: You Are What You Eat: Culture, Norms, and Values

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Social control is a process of regulating individual behavior to ensure it conforms to group norms-often informal, but widely known and accepted ways of doing things within a culture. This is done by applying sanctions-actions that express approval or disapproval of actions in reference to social norms.
Conformity to norms elicits positive sanctions (e.g. positive tweets about a restaurant), and their violation elicits negative sanctions (negative tweets about a restaurant).
Sanctions may be informal (e.g. disappointed patrons tell their friends not to visit a restaurant) or formal (a restaurant is fined or closed due to violation of food safety regulations).
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Commodity fetishism is a situation wherein the production process is obscured at the point of consumption i.e. invisible to the consumer. This includes a situation in which labor necessary to produce food, including inequality, exploitation and alienation of producers, is invisible to people who consume food.
This concept applies to domestic division of foodwork, which is often "invisible" (e.g. planning of menus and time necessary for purchase and preparation of food), and unequal (less powerful family members, e.g. women, spend much more time on foodwork), but the inequality is accepted as normal and not questioned.