Inequalities and changes in eating habits: from the priority of family influence to the key impact of media socialization

Abstract

Eating habits have shifted from being mostly developed within the family to become increasingly influenced by media and advertising. In these circumstances, in which we are witnessing trends toward the individuation of the eating act with its subsequent sociability loss, their socioeconomic, educational and/or informational disparities place people in unequal conditions for accessing to food commodities. In turn, these disparities are key factors for the production and reproduction of both people identity and their degree of social distinction.