ABSTRACT

Rounding off Part One, Alan Warde and Lydia Martens' chapter showed that even where a High degree of individual discretion might be assumed, choice turns out not to be a matter of each individual determining, solo, what they will eat: collective judgements and collaborative decisions are integral to the flow of social processes involved. Mention of social processes serves as a reminder that the basis for grouping chapters into Parts One and Two can only be approximate and is intended only as a convenience. There are at least two grounds (attention to social processes and the use of qualitative data-collection techniques) on which Warde and Martens' chapter is a possible candidate for Part Two, thus providing a bridge from Part One.