期刊名称：International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
印刷版ISSN：0798-1759
出版年度：1997
卷号：6
页码：77-107
出版社：The Research Committee on Food and Agriculture (RC40)
摘要：Globalization and Food Objects This paper examines the notion of global consciousness that is associated with the concept of globalisation. In analyses of globalisation we are confronted by a paradoxical problem: should we privilege a spatial mode of analysis, or, in contrast, the 'shift' from industrial society to a communicational/informational world? While many commentators agree that an important challenge is to develop interpretations relevant to processes of change that are taking place in the world, the issue is how to combine the study of individual's social practices and experiences but at the same time adequately incorporate an understanding of how these processes are shared with other individuals. It is argued that individuals mediate and organise the often conflicting information they receive, this information is then re-worked through their social practices. From this perspective the globalisation concept does not provide us with a systematic and holistic vision, but instead the global image generates a diversity of personal visions of the world. This is problematic and raises at least two important questions: can globalisation as a concept endure in rural sociology? Can it do more than simply communicate the feeling that something is rather different in the world?
