GLOBALIZATION, SOCIAL IDENTITY AND FOOD HABITS

Abstract

By taking into account the fact of the food habits social production and reproduction, the author studies sociologically some outcomes of present-day socio-economic globalization on the said production and reproduction. Particularly, the article focuses on both the impact of globalization on the so-called “loosing of food sovereignty” and the deterritorialization of foods consumption and production, as well as in its effects on feeding, which is understood as a factor of identity and social differentiation.