Engelsk titel: Going out, sociability, and cultural distinctions
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Författare:
Törrönen J
;
Maunu A
Email: jukka.torronen@stakes.fi
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 38
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 05093248
Sammanfattning
AIM: Pubs are focal stages of sociability. This
article investigates the identifi cations
and distinctions between us and them,
made by young Finns talking about their
own behaviour in pubs, and the pubs
they like and dislike.
DATA & METHOD: The data consists of 117 interviews with
23 to 35-year-old young Finnish adults
who work in business or administration.
The method applies classifi cation
analysis and is infl uenced by the
structuralist, semiotic, and rhetoric
traditions.
RESULTS: The analysis shows that many of the
interviewees’ classifi cations involve
distancing themselves from those
people that go to ‘superfi cial’ pubs. The
interviewees distinguish themselves
from those frequenting superfi cial
places by classifying the interactions
there as false and stiff, and contrary to
a genuine and relaxed sociability. With
these distinctions the interviewees do
not aim to distinguish themselves as
‘above’ others. Instead, they defi ne
themselves as ordinary people by
separating themselves from people who
are fake, pretentious, or too faddish.
CONCLUSIONS: [This] opposition to superfi ciality and the
emphasis on authenticity is reminiscent
of Rousseau’s criticism of trivial needs.
The interviewees seem to define sociability in pubs in a way
that valorises the virtues of
ordinariness and modesty.