Children’s Consumption of Food
This contribution proposes to highlight the different ways in which the parents of children aged between 4 and 12 years make decisions concerning their food consumption in a context characterized by an increasing uncertainty and by contradictory injunctions related to the act of eating. From an ethnographic study of twenty families, it aims at comparing the families belonging to favored social categories with those of more modest means by observing the tradeoffs that each and other can develop in dealing with the plurality of risks concerning food.