Alyssa sherman
paying for the dining center's shortcomings
For a variety of reasons, many students feel they cannot get the nutrition they need from the dining center. In this article, I investigate the spending patterns of students who must pay for food in addition to the meal plan in order to maintain a healthy diet on campus.
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victoria ribeiro
Organic Food Consumption as a Marker of Socioeconomic Class
Haverford College’s Dining Center is the one dining hall on campus, and thus, at least for a student’s first year at Haverford, everyone has access to the same quality of food. This, coupled with Haverford’s socioeconomically diverse student body, makes for a unique foodscape. An investigation exploring the relationship between organic food consumption and the socioeconomic class of current full time Haverford College students was done to explore how food choices represent boundaries between socioeconomic classes. This research is important as it studies the links between organic food consumption and social class issues.
An optional 11 question anonymous survey given to current full time Haverford College students was used to conduct an observational study investigating how a student’s socioeconomic status (SES) growing up influences his/her’s food choices on campus as well as how his/her food consumption pattern may have changed throughout their time at Haverford. The survey was split into two sections, with the first six questions asking about food consumption at home and the remaining five questions about food consumption at Haverford. The survey was distributed via email blast to obtain a random sample and eliminate any confounding factors. Data was collected for one week, resulting in a sample size of 29. Although, not a large enough sample size to test for statistically significant correlation, the data collected will show to some extent the effect socioeconomic class has on food choice at Haverford. This study drew from the theoretical framework in Amartya Sen’s Hunger and Entitlements, Amy Guptill’s, Food and Identity: Fitting in and Standing Out and Dana Vantrease’s Commod Bods and Frybread Power: Government Food Aid in American Indian Culture to investigate organic food consumption as a marker between social class boundaries on Haverford’s campus.
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An optional 11 question anonymous survey given to current full time Haverford College students was used to conduct an observational study investigating how a student’s socioeconomic status (SES) growing up influences his/her’s food choices on campus as well as how his/her food consumption pattern may have changed throughout their time at Haverford. The survey was split into two sections, with the first six questions asking about food consumption at home and the remaining five questions about food consumption at Haverford. The survey was distributed via email blast to obtain a random sample and eliminate any confounding factors. Data was collected for one week, resulting in a sample size of 29. Although, not a large enough sample size to test for statistically significant correlation, the data collected will show to some extent the effect socioeconomic class has on food choice at Haverford. This study drew from the theoretical framework in Amartya Sen’s Hunger and Entitlements, Amy Guptill’s, Food and Identity: Fitting in and Standing Out and Dana Vantrease’s Commod Bods and Frybread Power: Government Food Aid in American Indian Culture to investigate organic food consumption as a marker between social class boundaries on Haverford’s campus.
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