Café Society [electronic resource] /
Tjora, Aksel.
Tjora, A.editor.
Scambler, G.editor.
While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafés, café as surrogate office, and café as site of exchange for news and views.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Café as a Third Place; 2 Heart of Urbanism. The Café: A Chapter of Cultural History; 3 The Theory of the Café Central and the Practice of the Café Peripheral: Aspirational and Abject Infrastructures of Sociability on the; 4 Cafés, Third Places, and the Enabling Sector of Civil Society; 5 The Café Community; 6 Communal Awareness in the Urban Café; 7 Becoming a Barista; 8 Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces; 9 Design for Solitude
10 The City, the Café, and the Public Realm in AustraliaIndex
Includes bibliographical references pages (203-205) and index.
While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafés, café as surrogate office, and café as site of exchange for news and views.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Civilization—History.
Culture.
Sociology.
Sociology, Urban.
Human geography.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Cultural History.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology, general.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Human Geography.