Het regime van dik en dun. Moeders over voeding en opvoeding

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The regime of fat and thin. Mothers on food and training. In this article attitudes and practices regarding food and health are studied as manifestations of social inequality. Open interviews with mothers of Dutch primary-school-children of different socio-economic backgrounds (N = 31 and 15, respectively) confirm differences in taste and food-regimes, connected with attitudes towards health and weight-control. Bourdieu’s concept of ‘habitus’ (La Distinction. Critique du jugement [Distinction. A Social Critique of Taste] is combined with of ‘mothers’ competency’ in matters of food and eating in their families. Results are explained by the different ways in which ‘habitus’ and ‘competence’ function in distinct socio-economic strata. 18 References.