Research Overviews ¬ Ernährung und Gesellschaft

Otto Bayer, Thomas Kutsch and H. Peter Ohly
Ernährung und Gesellschaft. Forschungsstand und Problembereiche
Nutrition and society. Research status and problem areas

Opladen: Leske + Budrich 1999
(Sozialwissenschaften im Überblick, Volume 1), 312 pages
ISBN 3-8100-2151-2
24,90 EUR (only available through bookstores)

The publication focuses on the societal importance of nutrition and nutritional trends in the population. It also looks at how these are reflected in the social sciences. The state-of-the-art report, which is based on research findings and literature studies, offers an account of an important everyday life topic from a socio-cultural, social policy, trend-describing, as well as criticism of science perspective. This is a topic which has been discussed on an interdisciplinary level, however, rarely as an independent theme in the established social sciences such as sociology.

Additionally, with the help of queries in a variety of literature databases (SOLIS, PSYNDEX, SOMED, ELFIS) the publication contains a scientometric description of the research field. A selection of specialized information with commentary (studies, literature, journals, institutions, web sites and publishers) as well as a glossary are offered. The references which the scientometric analysis is based on, as well as recent descriptions from the research project database SOFIS are included on an attached CD-ROM.

This first volume in the series “Sozialwissenschaften im Überblick” is the product of a cooperative effort between the GESIS-department Social Science Information Centre (GESIS-IZ), the Sociology of Economics Department at the University of Bonn and the Institute for Nutritional Economics and Sociology at the Federal Research Centre for Nutrition (BFE) in Karlsruhe.

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Research Overviews ¬ Ernährung und Gesellschaft