7. Coffee, Social Space and Middle-Class Romance: Customer Writings in an Independent Coffee Shop in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-145
Author(s):  
Shuang Gao
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Coffee Shop

How place shapes taste: The local formation of middle-class residential preferences in two Israeli cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 146954051988248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Shani
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Formation ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Residential Preferences ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Local Narratives

This article studies the preferences of middle-class residents for old or new neighborhoods in two Israeli cities, and describes the ways local social space mediates the translation of the habitus into generative preferences. Most sociological studies either ignore questions of place or explicitly reject the role of place in shaping class tastes. While a number of recent studies have demonstrated the role of place in shaping class tastes, the mechanisms underlying the role of place have yet to be investigated and conceptualized. This study addresses this lacuna. Based on a mixed-methods comparative design, the article first presents the relationship between spatial and class processes underlying the particular social space of each of the two cities – that is, the local association between old/new neighborhoods and different populations, symbolic boundaries, and expectations regarding the future of different neighborhoods. It then shows how local social space is reflected in local narratives and patterns of distinction, which are interwoven with residents' accounts of their choices and preferences. The study argues that middle-class tastes are formed locally by a process of “emplacement,” in which social actors find their socially designated place in specific urban settings and develop the tastes and dispositions associated with these areas.

Authorial Careers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton Childress
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
Economic Reality

This chapter examines how Cornelia Nixon turned a $6,000 advance for Jarrettsville into a stable and middle-class income. Nixon's writing ritual is a story not only about her creative process, but also about money. She lives in a handsome condo in Berkeley Hills, California. She could have written Jarrettsville in the comfort of her home or office, but chose to write at the Starbucks coffee shop in Berkeley for two hours—and sometimes four—a day. To make sense of Nixon's creative process, the chapter considers two small economic transactions and one broader economic reality: paying for street parking near Starbucks, buying tea, and affording to have good days and bad days at the coffee shop. Given her authorial career and her finances at the time, the chapter asks how Nixon managed to afford her parking, her tea, and, most importantly, her condo, and how she afforded to write at all.

First names and social distinction: Middle-class naming practices in Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Lindsay ◽  
Deborah Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
Social Classification ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Personal Brand ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Naming Practices

Naming practices provide a novel way to explore contemporary gender and class processes in Australia. Names are important everyday symbols of social location and signify family history, gender, class, ethnicity and religion. In an individualised society a name is the ultimate personal ‘brand’ and is used to locate children in social space. In this article we draw on qualitative interviews with 41 parents to focus on class and gender distinctions in naming practices. Naming a child was considered to be an important responsibility and names were viewed as central to identity and social classification. Through our exploration of naming preferences and judgements by middle-class parents, contemporary processes of social distinction come to light. Discussion of name choices illustrated parental aspirations and fears and the drawing of symbolic class-, gender- and sexuality-based cultural boundaries in Australia.

‘Graduate Blues’: Considering the Effects of Inverted Symbolic Violence on Underemployed Middle Class Graduates

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciaran Burke
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Subjective Expectations ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
Employment Trajectories

The understanding of social reproduction, from a Bourdieusian perspective, is that the dominant typically reproduce their position in social space through various apparatus, such as the education system, to the detriment of the dominated group, who are unable to leave their own position, characterised by inequality and suffering. A key tool in achieving social reproduction is the process of symbolic violence; however, this article considers the effects of inverted symbolic violence. By following the trajectories of two middle class university graduates, this article will demonstrate the detrimental effect inverted symbolic violence has on their graduate employment trajectories. Respondents are depicted as having inflated subjective expectations incompatible with current objective realities within the labour market, resulting in a relatively downward, or unsuccessful, trajectory.

scholarly journals Contesting Indonesia’s Single Origin Coffee Market: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mangku Purnomo
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Coffee Bean ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
Single Origin ◽  
Coffee Markets

Coffee is a commodity that has high value and great demand, then it supply chain tends to be monopolized by big actors certainly for single origin coffee bean. However, increasing number of local coffee shops and consumer awareness of consumed goods, and the emergence of more conscious consumer groups of “coffee lovers” or “connoisseur’s consumers”, sparks an intesive competition among market actors in local level that influence such dominance. This study aims to employ the dynamic capabilities theories (DCs) to analyze how the market actors, namelysmall traders, wholesalers, certified companies, and coffee shop owners build a strategy to secure their coffee supply amidst the tight competition.Selecting the coffee markets in Dampit District, East Java, Indonesia, we find the actors fighting for social space to win the competition by building network, dependency, and legitimacy. Actors build capabilities based on the internal potential to identify opportunities, take the opportunities, and utilize them to transform business organizations to survive rapid environmental changes. Not just looking at dominance behaviors as how it is in the case of asset-based approach, DCs provide a more balanced perspective between the entrepreneur's capacity and asset control. Detailed research to see each actor builds long term strategies is needed in the future to describe in more detail their strategy in maintaining their business sustainability in the more competitive busisness environment.

Cultural vs Economic Capital: Symbolic Boundaries within the Middle Class

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vegard Jarness
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Social Closure ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
The City

This article concerns an insufficiently studied link in cultural class analysis, namely that between class-structured lifestyle differences and social closure. It employs a modified version of Michèle Lamont’s promising, yet under-theorised approach to the study of symbolic boundaries – the conceptual distinctions made by social actors in categorising people, practices, tastes, attitudes and manners in everyday life. Drawing on 46 qualitative interviews with people from the city of Stavanger, Norway, the analysis focuses particularly on a horizontal boundary-drawing dynamic between middle-class interviewees. It is argued that entanglements of different types of status judgements work both to construct and reinforce social boundaries between class fractions. The findings draw attention to what Pierre Bourdieu has termed the capital composition principle of social differentiation. Though fundamental to Bourdieu’s model of the social space, such systematic intra-class divisions have seldom been discussed in detail in contemporary cultural-stratification research.

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