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Table of contents for Eating out : social differentiation, consumption, and pleasure / Alan Warde and Lydia Martens.
Contents
List of illustrations page vii
List of tables viii
Acknowledgements x
1 Studying eating out 1
Methods of investigation 6
Theories and themes 9
The organisation of the book 16
Part I Modes of provision
2 The development of the habit of eating out in the UK 21
The commercial mode 23
Institutional catering 35
The communal mode 38
Provision: a summary 40
3 The meanings of eating out 42
Shared understandings of eating out 43
Reasons to eat out: pleasure, leisure and necessity 47
Attitudes towards eating out 52
Eating out and other leisure activities 55
Entertaining 56
Shared understanding and cultural templates 61
Part II Access
4 Patterns of eating out 69
The forming of a habit? 71
Commercial venues: who visits where? 74
On being a guest 86
Metropolitan and provincial patterns 88
The concentration of inequality 89
5 Domestic organisation, family meals and eating out 92
The organisation of domestic food work 94
Commercial alternatives: substitution, time and money 99
Shared understandings of the meal and the regulation of eating out 102
About family meals and moral panics 105
Domestic organisation, families and commodification 108
Part III Delivery
6 Personal service in public and private settings 117
Service and formality in the restaurant 121
Comparing commercial service and private hospitality 128
Power and informality 131
7 Last suppers 135
Mapping food tastes 147
Diversity, convergence or anomie? 159
Part IV Enjoyment: the attractions of eating out
8 Eating out as a source of gratification 169
Are customers really satisfied?: a methodological interlude 175
Gratification and the definition of dining out 184
Towards a systematic vocabulary of gratification: a theoretical interlude 184
Elements of enjoyment 189
9 The enjoyment of meal events 191
Sensuality: pleasure and joy 191
Instrumentalism: satisfaction and achievement 195
Contemplation: entertainment and appreciation 199
Sociality: participation and mutuality 204
The social importance of mutual gratification 207
Simple and compound enjoyment 209
Part V Conclusion
10 Eating out and theories of consumption 215
Events 215
Variety 218
The social consequences of eating out 224
Methodological appendix: data collection and analysis 228
References 234
Index 2.43