Autore: Beardsworth, Alan
Titolo: Comprendere il vegetarianismo. Una prospettiva sociologica sull'astensione dalle carni nell'occidente contemporaneo.
Periodico: Rassegna italiana di sociologia
Anno: 2004 - Volume: 45 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 543 - Pagina finale: 570

Voluntary vegetarianism involving a significant minority of the general population is a comparatively novel phenomenon in western culture. This paper discusses the historical roots of this phenomenon, as well as its contemporary manifestations. Estimates of the proportions of vegetarians within European national populations are presented, and set in the context of an analysis of the economic, political and ideological conditions in which a popular vegetarian option has emerged in western culinary systems. Evidence concerning the motivations and attitudes of vegetarians is presented, and the dynamics of the conversion process assessed, along with a discussion of the debate over the distinction between vegetarianism as a "movement" and vegetarianism as a "lifestyle". The paper is rounded off with an overview of the complex relationship between vegetarianism and modernity, and of the significance of the potent symbolism of meat, seen as vegetarianism's defining object of abstention and rejection.


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