THE BALANCE OF BIOCULTURE AND SOCIOCULTURE WITHIN FOOD CULTURE (Case: Obesity at Buginess Ethnic)

Abstract

Many phenomena about eat culture create a gap and conflict between the culture and health perspektif in order to satisfy any need of biocultural-biosocial and socioculture. This research aim to analyse a conception about biocultural – biosocial and socioculture to eating in culturization. A qualitaitive descriptive  by Grand Theory used a kind of this research. Obesity and its characteristic as subject of this study. The primary ad secondary as source of data. Any data collected by observation, interviews and documentation. A qualitative used to analyze data. The result of this research indicated that there are a gap and conflict between the culture and health perspektif in order to satisfy any need of biocultural-biosocial and socioculture particularly for the at culture. The culture viewed that obesity is a eat culture product which represented culturization and social predicate it. The health look at be unbalance food intake need a body. The gap occur caused the culture perspective oriented socioculture dimension as macro locus dan the health stressed a bioculture ones. The social culture element can be able create a routinely eating behavior or attitude many people which often contrast or different with a food intake standard. The phenomena of bioculture not one single determinant but there are other determinant influence eat culture namely socioculture and ecoculture. Their relation are reflected at knowledge system, economy, traditionally ritual, and culture process. The eat culture include bioculture, socioculture and ecoculture. For its balance require to apply any principle of health and value of culture into eat cultur so need integrated- internalized them.

Keywords: bioculture, socioculture, balance, eat culture, health, culture