Coffee has developed a certain image in the United States. We take “coffee breaks” at work, we “go grab a cup of coffee” with friends or for a first date, we are well acquainted with Starbucks, we incorporate coffee shops into popular media, as in the TV show, Friends, and line up to see a pop-up replica of Central Perk. Coffee itself is a very popular commodity, generating more trade than any other trade good except petroleum and is the most popular legal drug. Even those of us who do not drink coffee or do not actively participate in coffee culture are affected by it. Coffee culture in this thesis refers to specific habits and social interactions that revolve around coffee and coffee shops. Inviting someone out for coffee, getting coffee “to go” before work in the morning, spending free time and/or working in coffee shops, and joking about coffee addictions are all examples of coffee culture
“The worldwide coffee culture is almost a cult,”. “There are blogs and news groups on the subject, along with innumerable websites, and Starbucks outlets seem to populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains.” Coffee shops indicates how a big portion of coffee culture comes from the coffee shop. Coffee shop chains grew more than 10% annually between 2000 and 2004, which was before the increase in independent coffee shops in the recent decade. The coffee shop has been hailed as a “third place,” or the place one frequents that is not work or home. It also has a rich history with roots in the early coffeehouses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which have passed down the ideals of the coffee shop as a place for public discourse and the formation of a democratic public sphere. This study traces the development of the coffee shop from the first coffeehouses and how the coffee shop has become a center for urban sociability. In order to contextualize and unpack the social meaning and uses of a coffee shop, I use theories of public and private place, placemaking, and sociability, with an emphasis on third places and their role in the urban public sphere.
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Coffee Shops: Exploring Urban Sociability and Social Class in the Intersection of Public and Private Space
Rose Pozos-Brewer (2015)
Coffee has developed a certain image in the United States. We take “coffee breaks” at work, we “go grab a cup of coffee” with friends or for a first date, we are well acquainted with Starbucks, we incorporate coffee shops into popular media, as in the TV show, Friends, and line up to see a pop-up replica of Central Perk. Coffee itself is a very popular commodity, generating more trade than any other trade good except petroleum and is the most popular legal drug. Even those of us who do not drink coffee or do not actively participate in coffee culture are affected by it. Coffee culture in this thesis refers to specific habits and social interactions that revolve around coffee and coffee shops. Inviting someone out for coffee, getting coffee “to go” before work in the morning, spending free time and/or working in coffee shops, and joking about coffee addictions are all examples of coffee culture
“The worldwide coffee culture is almost a cult,”. “There are blogs and news groups on the subject, along with innumerable websites, and Starbucks outlets seem to populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains.” Coffee shops indicates how a big portion of coffee culture comes from the coffee shop. Coffee shop chains grew more than 10% annually between 2000 and 2004, which was before the increase in independent coffee shops in the recent decade. The coffee shop has been hailed as a “third place,” or the place one frequents that is not work or home. It also has a rich history with roots in the early coffeehouses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which have passed down the ideals of the coffee shop as a place for public discourse and the formation of a democratic public sphere. This study traces the development of the coffee shop from the first coffeehouses and how the coffee shop has become a center for urban sociability. In order to contextualize and unpack the social meaning and uses of a coffee shop, I use theories of public and private place, placemaking, and sociability, with an emphasis on third places and their role in the urban public sphere.
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