The role of Sociology in improving the education of food applications’ designers and developers to reduce food loss "Applied analytical study on some Arab Food delivery applications".

Abstract

The subject of the research is about the importance of stakeholder’s education for human social food behaviour through sociology. Recently, many stakeholders appeared behind food delivery applications in Arab countries which can support society to reduce food loss. The research’s objective is to recognize the role of sociology in stakeholders’ education, who design and develop delivery food applications to minimize food loss. The research will answer the main question:” What is the background of sociology for the designers and developers of the food delivery applications, that form their ideologies about the relationship between social behavior and food loss?”. The research methodology is a descriptive analytical meta-study based on description, critique and the study of the data related to the content and the descriptive analytical method by using content analysis tool. The current research attempted to analyse the content by download five IOS food delivery applications, which are (Talabat, Macdonald’s Egypt, KFC Egypt, MAF Carrefour, InstaShop), that directly measure the awareness of applications’ designers about sociology and food loss problematic. That lead to achieve research objectives by recognizing the role of sociology in creating the ideology of food applications’ designers and developers, and if they have the proper knowledge about how to use sociology to stop food loss.