OS FOODIES NA ARENA SOCIOLÓGICA

Abstract

This conceptual research problematizes the concept of foodie, neologism coined by the gastronomic critic Gael Greene and popularized by the journalists Ann Barr and Paul Levy in his The Official Foodie Handbook, published in the decade of 1990. The phenomenon is explored with much more vigor through the lenses of journalists in gastronomic columns and little discussed in the Social Sciences. The study reveals the sociological potential of this thematic that transpasses categories of analysis as class, gender, consumption, lifestyle, hedonism and ethics.

Keywords: Foodies. Food. Gastronomy. Lifestyle.