Young Children’s Learning about Hunger and Satiety through the Lens of the Norms of Those Who Feed Them

Anne Dupuy, Sophie Nicklaus, Camille Schwartz, Stéphanie Goirand and Laurence Tibère
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Anne Dupuy: Centre d’Étude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir, UMR CNRS 5044, CEDEX 9, F-31058 Toulouse, France
Sophie Nicklaus: Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, AgroSup Dijon, CNRS, INRAE, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
Camille Schwartz: Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, AgroSup Dijon, CNRS, INRAE, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
Stéphanie Goirand: Centre d’Étude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir, UMR CNRS 5044, CEDEX 9, F-31058 Toulouse, France
Laurence Tibère: Centre d’Étude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir, UMR CNRS 5044, CEDEX 9, F-31058 Toulouse, France

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-35

Abstract: This article focuses on parental perceptions of signs of hunger and satiety in children under 4 years of age and their effects on feeding practices, in a sample of parents of children with typical development. Discourse analysis shows the close relationships between social food norms, nutritional norms, medicalized child care norms, and educational norms in adults’ determination of children’s appetites according to their perceived needs and psychomotor development. The results also indicate how these norms are expressed according to social position, parental experience and context. More broadly, this article addresses top-down education—from adults to children—in food socialization, and points to the varying attention paid to the signals given by the child. It thus highlights some of the processes by which biological, psychological and social factors interact in socializing children to food.

Keywords: hunger; appetite; satiety; satiation; socialization; children; norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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