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

• Main Author: Chern, Cheryl Shiying
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55828
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...