Coffee, tea or me? : the café culture in Singapore

In recent years, cafés have been sprouting up across the local food scene in Singapore. This research focuses on how café-goers visit cafés in Singapore to (re)construct their social identities. Drawing on participant observations, surveys and in-depth interviews as well as Bourdieu’s notion of tast...

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Main Author: Chern, Cheryl Shiying
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-558282019-12-10T11:04:31Z Coffee, tea or me? : the café culture in Singapore Chern, Cheryl Shiying School of Humanities and Social Sciences John Stephen Lansing DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology In recent years, cafés have been sprouting up across the local food scene in Singapore. This research focuses on how café-goers visit cafés in Singapore to (re)construct their social identities. Drawing on participant observations, surveys and in-depth interviews as well as Bourdieu’s notion of taste and cultural capital, I posit that café-goers in Singapore take part in identity work when they visit cafés. This paper shows the ways in which people prove their membership in a particular social group (café community) to themselves and to the rest of society, one of which is through uploading of food photographs taken at cafés on social media sites. By examining the value of and meanings attached to visiting cafés, this paper will attempt to explain the café culture in Singapore. Bachelor of Arts 2014-04-01T02:25:20Z 2014-04-01T02:25:20Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55828 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf
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Coffee, tea or me? : the café culture in Singapore
description In recent years, cafés have been sprouting up across the local food scene in Singapore. This research focuses on how café-goers visit cafés in Singapore to (re)construct their social identities. Drawing on participant observations, surveys and in-depth interviews as well as Bourdieu’s notion of taste and cultural capital, I posit that café-goers in Singapore take part in identity work when they visit cafés. This paper shows the ways in which people prove their membership in a particular social group (café community) to themselves and to the rest of society, one of which is through uploading of food photographs taken at cafés on social media sites. By examining the value of and meanings attached to visiting cafés, this paper will attempt to explain the café culture in Singapore.
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