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How Breakfast Happens in the Café
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Abstract In this article I present an ethnographic study of `breakfast in the café', to begin to document the orderly properties of an emergent timespace. In so doing, the aim is to provide a description of the local production of timespace and a consideration of a change to the daily rhythm of city life. Ha... view more
In this article I present an ethnographic study of `breakfast in the café', to begin to document the orderly properties of an emergent timespace. In so doing, the aim is to provide a description of the local production of timespace and a consideration of a change to the daily rhythm of city life. Harold Garfinkel and David Sudnow's study of a chemistry lecture is drawn upon as an exemplary study of the collective creation of an event. Attention is drawn to the centrality of sequentiality as part of the orderly properties of occasioned places. As part of examining the sequences I chart the ongoing emergence of features of breakfast time in the café such as `the first customer', `crowded' and `quiet'. In closing the article, I consider how changes in the rhythm of the city are made apprehensible to its residents.... view less
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
breakfast; café; ethnography; ethnomethodology; interaction;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 119-134
Journal
Time & Society, 17 (2008) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X07086306
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
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