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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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Summary of Methods of a Field Work Class Cooperating with the Committee on Food Habits
Pages 95-96

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... We had the advantage of having done a study the year before ~ ~940-4~ ~ in a housing project of Queens where contacts had been made and a considerable amount of sociological data obtained, and it was decided to make the food study there. The project contained 3,ooo families of a uniformly low income group, but of difl Brent ethnic and religious backgrounds.
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... In this study we correlate attitudes to rationing and sending food abroad with the degree of participation in war effort, with ethnic background, and with age group. Thus, during two years, two field work classes composed of senior undergraduate students have been able to make a study of attitudes and behavior related to food and the war in a rapidly changing situation and to catch some of the resulting changes in attitude as they were occurring.
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