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The Problem of Changing Food Habits Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943 (1943) / Chapter Skim
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Outline of Studies on Food Habits in the Rural Southeast
Pages 109-112

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... The general method included intensive open-ended interviews cross checked by extensive interviews and survey calf available technical data. Bath' North Carolina I
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... A negative effectiveness of formal media for diffusing nutritional information was indicated except for definite short-range projects. Media used contacted mainly white owner, long-term sharecropper classes.
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... 9. There are two main lines of communication operating in a rural Southeastern community: The horizontal class contacts, for example, between White owners and other White^owners, and the plantation contacts in which the line of communication extends vertically among the landlord, tenants, sharecroppers and wagehands of a single establishment.
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... Cultural sanctions of the food pattern in the rural southeast. Radcliffe College, Ugly.
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Key Terms

  • rural southeast
  • food pattern
  • white owner
  • nutritional information
  • sharecropper classes

  • food production
  • states department
  • white owners
  • particular cultural
  • cultural sanctions

  • social structure
  • nutrition division
  • cultural values
  • security agency
  • diffusing nutritional

  • authoritarian type
  • individual deviations
  • extensive interviews
  • plain tobacco
  • white sharecroppers

  • contacted mainly
  • human relations
  • community tog
  • cultural patterning
  • county nutrition

  • producing improvements
  • frontier dietary
  • contemporary dietary
  • class contacts
  • food preferences


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