Masters Thesis
Background and Significance Outline
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
The current food system that exists for all people in the world needs to be more equitable. More focus needs to be placed on initiatives that are created in order to help create food justice, and specific focus on goals and execution of goals put in place to attempt in creating food justice. I will look to school food programs to illustrate program implementation that attempt to create food justice. PROBLEM: SOCIAL EQUITY AND FOOD JUSTICE ARE LARGE PROBLEMS
Define social equity of food:
Access to healthy and affordable food:
Just and Sustainably grown food
Culturally appropriate food:
Alkon (2009) et al. described food justice as “access to healthy food, affordable, culturally appropriate food” (p. 289).
“To have healthy, culturally appropriate food, which is also justly and sustainably grown” (Sbicca, 2012, p. 456).
Define food justice in terms of equity: “achieving justice is not only a matter of redistributing goods, it is a matter of correcting disparities in social, political, and economic standings to allow those who have been historically underprivileged to advocate for their concerns” (Loo, 2014, p. 789&795).
Social
Political
Economic
JUSTIFY FOOD JUSTICE IN TERMS OF A SOCIAL PROBLEM
A Social Problem
Definition of a social problem:
"A social problem is a social condition (such as poverty) or a pattern of behavior (such as substance abuse) that harms some individuals or all people in a society and that a sufficient number of people believe warrants public concern and collective action to bring about change" (Kendall, D. Social Problems in a Diverse Society (4th ed). Boston: Pearson, 2007, p. 4.
"A social problem exists when people subjectively perceive and have empirical evidence to show that social conditions combine at a local, societal, or global level to cause personal problems" (Crone, J. How Can We Solve Our Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press,
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
The current food system that exists for all people in the world needs to be more equitable. More focus needs to be placed on initiatives that are created in order to help create food justice, and specific focus on goals and execution of goals put in place to attempt in creating food justice. I will look to school food programs to illustrate program implementation that attempt to create food justice. PROBLEM: SOCIAL EQUITY AND FOOD JUSTICE ARE LARGE PROBLEMS
Define social equity of food:
Access to healthy and affordable food:
Just and Sustainably grown food
Culturally appropriate food:
Alkon (2009) et al. described food justice as “access to healthy food, affordable, culturally appropriate food” (p. 289).
“To have healthy, culturally appropriate food, which is also justly and sustainably grown” (Sbicca, 2012, p. 456).
Define food justice in terms of equity: “achieving justice is not only a matter of redistributing goods, it is a matter of correcting disparities in social, political, and economic standings to allow those who have been historically underprivileged to advocate for their concerns” (Loo, 2014, p. 789&795).
Social
Political
Economic
JUSTIFY FOOD JUSTICE IN TERMS OF A SOCIAL PROBLEM
A Social Problem
Definition of a social problem:
"A social problem is a social condition (such as poverty) or a pattern of behavior (such as substance abuse) that harms some individuals or all people in a society and that a sufficient number of people believe warrants public concern and collective action to bring about change" (Kendall, D. Social Problems in a Diverse Society (4th ed). Boston: Pearson, 2007, p. 4.
"A social problem exists when people subjectively perceive and have empirical evidence to show that social conditions combine at a local, societal, or global level to cause personal problems" (Crone, J. How Can We Solve Our Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press,