Research On The Individual Dietary Lifestyle Of Empty-Nest Youth

Many empty-nest young people who are single and live alone in the city have attracted the attention and heated discussion of all walks of life.However,they should not be regarded as a homogeneous and abstract group.Many empty-nest young people also show a life attitude of not casual and not making do with their food,pursuing health,quality and freedom,and are keen on cooking and making bento for themselves.This article takes the behavior of self-made bento as an example to analyze the dietary life of the empty-nest youth from the perspective of the main body,and analyzes how to construct the individualized diet lifestyle,what kind of individualized practice they are carrying out in this dietary lifestyle,and what is the dilemma behind the individualized dietary life.This study depicts the phenomenon of empty-nest youth’s self-made bento with the theory of Individualization and Lifestyle,and explores the dietary life of empty-nest youth based on participatory observation and semi-structured interview.Around the core problem: the lifestyle of empty-nest youth’s self-made bento,this study is based on the construction logic of the diet lifestyle,the individualized practice of the diet life and the reverse side of the individualized diet life,the research and analysis found that:(1)The construction logic of empty-nest youth’s self-made bento food life mainly revolves around modern living conditions and active living subjects.Tool technology and network platform are the social thrust of living conditions.Personal preference,skill learning and food concept are the dynamic internal forces of living subjects.(2)In the three individualized dimensional of de-inserted,de-traditionalized and re-inserted of empty-nest youth’s dietary life,they put themselves in the center of life planning and manage actively.Empty-nest youth are facing many uncertainties in the individualized dietary life behind their separation from the original social class and relationship.Empty-nest youth’s examination of their body and Mc Donald’s diet makes them put controlling uncertainty into individualized life practice;After entering the individualized society,the empty-nest youth have continuously stimulated the subject-oriented and self-centered consciousness of,and actively integrated into their own individualized life.They put adapting their life into the individualized life practice on the basis of individual diet action,gender practice and examining external consumption concept;The empty-nest youth begin to seek the ideal way of embedding into the society again when they broke away from the traditional concept and status.They carried out self-representation and relationship connection in the media space,living space and working space,then put transcending empty-nest narration into the individualized life practice.(3)The individualized diet life of empty-nest youth is highly free to control the diet life.At the same time,the limitations of individual social capital and individual initiative of empty-nest youth also reflect the reverse side of the individualized dietary life.Empty-nest youth face the eating life eroded by work,encounter incomplete food and life related facilities,have new anxiety towards more scientific and healthy diet’s cognition and practice limitations,and may also have to digest the emotional risk of living alone.