Eating Together, Feeling Together, Getting Things Done:
A Narrative Review and Integrative Theory of Social Eating/Drinking
内容简介
This narrative review integrates sociological, psychological, and anthropological research on social eating/drinking. It argues that social eating/drinking is best conceptualized as a relational occasion organized around food and drink. The review makes three contributions. First, it clarifies the conceptual vocabulary of eating together and proposes social eating/drinking as an umbrella concept for domestic, public, ritual, instrumental, and mediated occasions. Second, it distinguishes three functions: expressive functions make relations meaningful; instrumental functions make relations usable; ambivalent functions organize boundaries, hierarchy, discipline, and unequal labor. Third, it identifies four mechanisms that connect occasion and outcome: affective attunement, symbolic membership, interactional observability, and obligation/convertibility. The core claim is that social eating/drinking is a relational technology through which affects membership, resources, and power are jointly organized.
主讲人简介
何凌锋，西安交通大学实证社会科学研究所/社会学系博士候选人。研究兴趣包括社会网络、计算社会科学等。有关成果见于《Social Science & Medicine》、《Applied Geography》等期刊。