Scientific Disciplines Sample Clauses

Scientific Disciplines. Xxxxxxxxx (1997) described the role of agricultural and food products in respect to consumer science: “Food has a central position in the life of consumers. It is the source of nutrition and hedonic experiences, it serves a social and cultural function, and accounts for a major share of consumer expenditure. Yet consumer behaviour with respect to foods has not attracted much systematic attention by consumer behaviour researchers. At least part of the difficulty in conducting research in this important area lies in the complexity and diversity of the influences at work in food choice and consumption, and in the fact that such research requires knowledge of the concepts of and insights from a wide range of science and social science disciplines, including food science, nutrition, medicine, psychology, psychophysics, sociology, economics, marketing and anthropology”. This segmentation of consumer science in a variety of disciplines, as described in section 1.1. and by Xxxxxxxxx (1997) above, is also the reason why consumer science as a whole does not fit into one model or theory. Consumer science is built up of a variety of disciplines of which each discipline has its own theory and/or model(s). Some of the theories and models are listed below in Table 1. Table 1 Theories and models expressed by discipline related to food consumer science Food consumer science Discipline Theory or model Economics Economic household models Food science / nutrition Bio-psychological approach. Health Belief Model Psychology Theory of Reasoned Action. Theory of Planned Behavior Sociology Food Choice Process Model Other knowledge fields: Communication Theory of linear knowledge transfer or demand driven Supply chain management, aspects of corporate social responsibility