How Marketplace Performances Produce Interdependent Status Games and Contested Forms of Symbolic Capital

Üstüner, Tuba; Thompson, Craig J.

doi:10.1086/660815

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“…Drawing on Stebbins's P-A-P system (1979, p.24), we help to advance the study of such communities by revealing the tensions between the members of the community and the production of subcultural and social capital. The enactment tensions (Thomas et al 2013) between connoisseurs and regular consumers -and between outstanding professionals and regular consumers, and the status games (Üstüner & Thompson, 2012) between connoisseur consumers and outstanding professionals in the connoisseurship community have been identified and described in this paper.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…The latter is essential to the former performing the taste transformation ritual, and the former pushes the barista to the edge of their everyday work. They develop a commercial friendship; however, a status game (Holt, 1998;Üstüner & Thompson, 2012) is also established between connoisseur consumers and baristas. Connoisseur consumers develop their subcultural capital in the specialty coffee field, and they seek to acquire prestige with professionals in a particular status game structured around connoisseurship practices.…”

Section: Consumer Status Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

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Connoisseurship Consumption Community and Its Dynamics

Quintão

Brito

Belk

2017

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Purpose -This study aims to identify and explain the forces and tensions between the members of the connoisseurship consumption community and its dynamics.Design/methodology/approach -Adopting a naturalistic inquiry approach, we immersed ourselves in the field, visiting and observing consumers and professionals in independent coffee shops in North America: Toronto, Montreal, Seattle, and New York from August 2013 to July 2014.Findings -The research describes the connoisseurship consumption community and explains its forces, which are education, emulation and tensions between the members of the community.Originality/value -Our findings explain the amateur consumer's behavior and the relationship of these amateurs with professionals and with the public during their consumption practices. We help to advance the study of heterogeneous consumption communities by revealing the tensions between the members of the community and the production of subcultural and social capital. Our research contributes to the consumer culture field by increasing knowledge of this social consumption phenomenon.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Consumer Status Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

Connoisseurship Consumption Community and Its Dynamics

Quintão

Brito

Belk

2017

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“…Habitus refers to the set of implicit codes which govern all aspects of behaviour (including what to wear, and how to look) within a specific social context, such as a workplace. These unspoken rules are difficult to pin down or articulate for those not intimately familiar with the field (Ustuner & Thompson, 2012).…”

Section: Career Image and Career Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Good looks and good practice: the attitudes of career practitioners to attractiveness and appearance

Yates

Hooley

Bagri

2016

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent AbstractEmpirical evidence attests the impact that career image has on objective career success, yet little is known of how career practitioners conceptualise and operationalise this information. This article presents the quantitative findings of an online survey of career practitioners (n=399, 74% female, 89% white, 75% from the UK) exploring their attitudes and practices towards issues of appearance and attractiveness. Career practitioners who participated in this survey acknowledged that beauty, self-presentation and interpersonal skills influence career success, and 96% of them considered conversations about career image as part of their professional remit. The career practitioners felt relatively comfortable and well informed in their discussions in this arena, but would welcome further guidance and training to inform their practice. Ethical and practical implications for the profession are considered.

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“…He argues that these are more reliable and longer lasting than explicit rules (such as dress codes and codes of conduct) in shaping group identities and responses both within the in-group and from outside. This field-specific habitus is only learned as individuals become familiar with the field (Ustuner & Thompson, 2012), but once understood, it becomes a powerful tool for regulating one's own behaviour and for judging that of others. However, one's ability to assimilate the rules of a particular field is influenced by pre-existing cultural capital as well as, with respect to dress, the financial capital to actualise your understanding of the rules.…”

Section: Theorising the Acquisition Of Career Imagementioning

confidence: 99%

‘If you look the part you’ll get the job’: should career professionals help clients to enhance their career image?

Hooley

Yates

2014

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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This article presents a critical exploration of the role of career professionals in supporting people to reflect on and enhance their appearance, attractiveness and self-presentation (career image). The article is conceptual and based on a review of the broader literature on career success, appearance and attractiveness. It explores the evidence for a relationship between attractiveness and career, and the authors propose a conceptual framework in which career image is comprised of three elements (interpersonal skills, aesthetic presentation and beauty). The paper examines a possible role for career professionals in relation to this and then critically examines this role and concludes with the proposition of a research agenda in this area

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How Marketplace Performances Produce Interdependent Status Games and Contested Forms of Symbolic Capital

Cited by 105 publications

References 40 publications

Connoisseurship Consumption Community and Its Dynamics

Connoisseurship Consumption Community and Its Dynamics

Good looks and good practice: the attitudes of career practitioners to attractiveness and appearance

‘If you look the part you’ll get the job’: should career professionals help clients to enhance their career image?

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