Professor Benedetta Cappellini's Outputs (2)

Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity (2015)
Journal Article
Cappellini, B., Parsons, E., & Harman, V. (2015). Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity. Sociology, 50(6), 1089-1105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515593033

This article investigates how culinary taste contributes to the formation of middle class identity in a working class context in the UK. We explore practices of food consumption among a group of individuals working at a UK university located in a wor... Read More about Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity.

Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability (2015)
Journal Article
Harman, V., & Cappellini, B. (2015). Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability. Sociology, 49(4), 764-781. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514559322

This article explores middle class mothers’ narratives on their daily routines of preparing lunchboxes for their children. In this study lunchboxes are understood as an artefact linking together discourses and practices of doing and displaying mother... Read More about Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability.