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Gerontology and the Sociology of Food and Eating

IN WHAT ways do food and eating patterns play a part in, affect, or result from human relationships and societal conditions? Specifically, how are these related to processes of aging and/or the problems of the aged? Food, like oxygen, is necessary for human and societal survival. Functional relationships between oxygen in the atmosphere and individual behavior, social life and societal survival have been assumed perhaps, but have not been discussed to any extent by social scientists. Speculations concerning the social adaptation of individuals, groups and future societies to differences and changes in the breathable oxygen content in the atmosphere have remained for the most part? in the realm of science-fiction. The topic of food and eating (nutrition) has fared somewhat better. Social scientists have overtly recognized and have studied social aspects of nutrition, although by no means exhaustively. Thus, for example, in the Handbook of Modern Sociology, Faris asserts: