Gender Differentiation, Consumption Elitism, and Institutional Conflict: A Field Report on Wildlife Consumption in China (差異化、精英化與衝突性：公眾食用野生動物狀況調查與分析)
- Publisher:
- City University of Hong Kong
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- The Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences《香港社會科學學報》, 2022, 58, (Spring/Summer), pp. 151-172
- Issue Date:
- 2022-06-01
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Eating wildlife has been a long-standing social custom, and its changing pattern reflects the changes of complex and diverse social practices in societies. Leveraging on the past social surveys, this article reports the findings of a 2020 survey, with 826 completed samples on the current situation
and characteristics of public consumption of wildlife in China. We find that the public consumption of wildlife has continued to decline, and that it has ceased to be a popular habit by the majority of our sample. On the basis of the comparative analysis of the four factors of gender,
occupation, age and education level, the current public consumption of wildlife shows the characteristics of ‘gender differentiation’ and ‘consumption elitism’. At the
same time, there may be conflict between internal and external tensions in the cultivation of public good eating behaviour. The article also outlines some future directions of further analysis and research.
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