The highlight of this class was dissecting what food insecurity really means and how it can be integrated into so many other components within society,” says Calley West, a senior sociology major at Boise State University. “Food is just a really interesting concept if you really dive into it. There’s the cultural aspect of what type of foods you eat together, how food brings people together, like how a lot of families come together at the table. So it’s easy to see how food insecurity can impact a culture.”
“The highlight of this class was dissecting what food insecurity really means and how it can be integrated into so many other components within society,” says Calley West, a senior sociology major at Boise State University. “Food is just a really interesting concept if you really dive into it. There’s the cultural aspect of what type of foods you eat together, how food brings people together, like how a lot of families come together at the table. So it’s easy to see how food insecurity can impact a culture.”
In early May, West, along with classmates from associate professor Rebecca Som Castellano’s senior seminar class in the Department of Sociology, presented findings from a survey they conducted to the CEO and staff of the Idaho Foodbank.