What Is Food Insecurity In Sociology?

In the 2016 presidential election, I heard each candidate talk about a broad range of topics, ranging from abortion to foreign hot spots. Is those topics important? Yes, but what about the problems that the working class face on a daily bases. Due to the fact that in our society today most of the job opportunities are temporary, it doesn’t guarantee long-term financial security. When someone from the working class lose their job it can then lead to them being homeless and not able to provide food for their family. Some families have jobs but still have a hard time providing food for themselves. On October 28, 2016 I visit the food bank in Phoenix, Arizona and witnessed many families with hunger issues. I didn’t actually realize how big of an issue food insecurity was until I volunteered at the food bank. Food …show more content…
I think our world is only as strong as our middle class. Politicians need to focus on building are lower and middle class. Within this paper I’m going to describe the issues of food insecurity from a sociology perspective and I’m going to rely on my observation while at the food bank and integrate some of the course materials, such as temporary jobs and Reich perspective on inequality.

While volunteering at the food bank, the project they had me working on was distributing food to the hunger. This position mainly consisted of taking a cart full of groceries to someone’s car and unloading it for them. While helping at this position, I heard many interesting stories that had me surprised. Taken into consideration, I never heard of the food bank until I participated in this project. I thought I was going to be distributing food to only homeless people but that were not the case. Some of the people that was in need of food was homeless, but there was working class people also there trying to get food. That took me by surprise.For example, there was a