Food and eating are critical sites for analysing everyday life and social change. Amid growing concerns about health, sustainability and neoliberal pressures for individual responsibility, there is increasing pressure to reshape how individuals relate to food. This study addresses the evolution of food practices across the life course, examining how social class and trajectories shape food-related habits. Drawing on a Bourdieusian relational phenomenology, the research explores how individuals adapt their food practices in response to evolving social contexts. Using life history interviews and ethnographic accounts, the research shows that while early familial socialisation establishes foundational food repertoires, key life transitions and experiences of social mobility often prompt a re-evaluation of food practices. Upwardly mobile individuals often frame dietary changes as projects of self-reinvention, leveraging cultural capital to align with health-conscious or cosmopolitan norms, whereas working-class participants emphasise pragmatic adjustment to constraints and expectations. The findings challenge deterministic readings of Bourdieu, while demonstrating that practices are dynamically reshaped through accumulated knowledge and reflexive engagement. Crucially, narratives of change are themselves classed, reflecting inequalities in symbolic mastery. The study underscores how food practices both reproduce and occasionally contest social inequalities through the enduring influence of class trajectory. It further argues that even though institutional interventions are more effective in promoting socially desirable change, they often carry symbolic violence.

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烹饪变化：整个生命历程中的饮食习惯和阶级轨迹


食物和饮食是分析日常生活和社会变革的关键场所。随着对健康、可持续性和个人责任的新自由主义压力的日益担忧，重塑个人与食物的关系的压力越来越大。本研究探讨了整个生命历程中饮食习惯的演变，研究了社会阶层和轨迹如何塑造与食物相关的习惯。该研究借鉴了布迪厄斯的关系现象学，探讨了个人如何调整他们的饮食习惯以应对不断变化的社会环境。使用生活史访谈和人种学描述，研究表明，虽然早期的家庭社会化奠定了基础的食物曲目，但关键的生活转变和社会流动的经历往往会促使人们重新评估饮食习惯。向上流动的人通常将饮食改变定义为自我重塑的项目，利用文化资本与注重健康或世界性的规范保持一致，而工人阶级参与者则强调对限制和期望的务实调整。这些发现挑战了对布迪厄的确定性解读，同时表明实践是通过积累的知识和反思性的参与而动态重塑的。至关重要的是，关于变化的叙事本身就是有分类的，反映了象征掌握的不平等。该研究强调了饮食习惯如何通过阶级轨迹的持久影响来复制并偶尔对抗社会不平等。它进一步指出，尽管制度干预在促进社会理想的变革方面更有效，但它们往往带有象征性的暴力。