10 Result(s)
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An Intergenerational Study Design
We describe the data collection methods we employed with three generations of Australians (the Lucky Generation, the Baby Boomers and the Gen Ys) and analysis techniques used. We conducted interviews with peop...
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The Big Australian: Obesity in the Modern World
Here we describe the problem of obesity worldwide and in Australia. Readers are introduced to the book’s conceptual approach to exploring the way social structures can impact on key health behaviours. The book...
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How Convenience Is Sha** Australian Diets: The Disappearing Dessert
Chapter 4 deals more directly with a socio-cultural trend that is repeatedly implicated in rising levels of obesity, namely the rise of convenience foods and the ...
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Fitness Marginalises Fun and Friendship
Chapter 6 emerges from one of the key findings from Chap. 5, namely that leisure time physical activity has been far more str...
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The Weight of Time: From Full to Fragmented in 50 Years
Chapter 8 takes up the complex and sometimes contradictory ways time pressure is represented and experienced, and the changes that draw from its rise during the twentieth century. Unlike dietary practices and ...
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From Habit to Choice: Transformations in Family Dining Over Three Generations
Changes in family dining are explored in Chap. 3, focusing in particular on the meal that Australians have most consistently eaten together: the evening meal. The plain and pr...
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From Sociable Leisure to Exhaustion: A Tale of Two Revolutions
Chapter 5 weaves together cultural economy accounts of leisure (focusing specifically on non-obligatory physical exertion) and sporting activity (both organised a...
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The Rise of Automobility
The gradual evolution of car reliance is the subject of Chapter 7. It builds on a detailed social history of transport and cars in Melbourne undertaken by our former doctoral student, Sarah Hinde. Her material...
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Social Forces Sha** Life Chances and Life Choices
Chapter 9 is divided into two parts. First, we summarise the findings from previous chapters and then report on three additional socio-cultural trends which repeatedly appeared when the three generations were ...
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Restoring Coherence to a Stressed Social System
Chapter 10 begins by asking what pressure points for action exist in societies like Australia to reverse the rise in obesity. We focus on the realm of culture as an overlooked and contested sphere of both deli...
