In(Form)Ality: Children’S Identity and Family Meals

This research seeks to examine children’s relation to food in the context of the domestic family environment. It considers the central role given to the family meal as part of children’s food socialization and examines the ways in which children engage in these family events. While largely conceptual it reports on qualitative and survey work with children that draws on their accounts of eating. It suggests that children both conform with eating conventions but also find ways to exercise some agency and influence over family meals.



Citation:

David Marshall (2011) ,"In(Form)Ality: Children’S Identity and Family Meals", in E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 9, eds. Alan Bradshaw, Chris Hackley, and Pauline Maclaran, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 61-63.

Authors

David Marshall, University of Edinburgh



Volume

E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 9 | 2011



Share Proceeding

Featured papers

See More

Featured

Crime and Punishment through the Political Lens: How Liberals Forgive, and Conservatives Punish Ethical Brand Users

Thomas Allard, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Brent McFerran, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Read More

Featured

When Less is More - How Making Products More Personal Can Decrease Purchase Intention

Michael Schulz, University of Cologne

Read More

Featured

Consumers' Journey into Access-Based Consumption

Swapnil Saravade, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Lorena Garcia Ramon, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Jacob Almaguer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mohammadali Zolfagharian, Bowling Green State University
Hazel H. Dadanlar, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Read More

Engage with Us

Becoming an Association for Consumer Research member is simple. Membership in ACR is relatively inexpensive, but brings significant benefits to its members.