The English public house as a 21st century socially responsible community institution

Abstract

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“It’s Us, You Know, There’s a Feeling of Community”: Exploring Notions of Community in a Consumer Co-operative

“…In this hybrid position, pubs have been linked strongly with community by both managers/publicans and consumers, as a place for social interaction, stimulating and maintaining community cohesion, a place for networking and for playing a positive role in maintaining a social centre, and sometimes the last remaining service in the community and therefore with the potential to be the hub of that community (Cabras 2011;Plunkett Foundation 2015;Sandiford and Divers 2014). Additionally, Clarke et al (1998: 138) argue that "the pub remains linked 'organically' to its use by its clientele".…”

“…Andrews and Tuner (2012) note that there is probably no other sector of the UK hospitality industry that has undergone such a long and sustained period of change, due to the effects of legislation, recession, the credit crunch, and rising costs (Cabras 2011). Pub closures have been linked with community erosion (Sandiford and Divers 2014) and, consequently the role of pubs as part of communities and as a catalyst for social sustainability has gained more attention. Indeed, research has highlighted concerns for not only the effect on communities from pub decline but on the wider cultural landscape (Andrews and Turner 2012).…”

“…In response to pub closures and the pressure from pubcos, a number of communities have sought to save or rejuvenate their local pub through running it as a CC (Sandiford and Divers 2014). Pubs seem particularly suited to the co-operative form because of their role as a traditional space for social aggregation and communal engagement (Cabras, 2011), reflecting the significance of community as a characteristic of co-operatives more widely (Fairburn 2004).…”

Liquor landscapes: Does access to alcohol outlets influence alcohol consumption in young adults?

“…Our overall hypothesis was that there would be a stronger relationship between off-premise licences and alcohol consumption than on-premise licences. Packaged licences sell larger volumes of alcohol for consumption in uncontrolled environments, whereas on-premise drinking is, to some extent, regulated by venue management or social norms about acceptable levels of alcohol consumption (Piontek et al, 2013, Stockwell et al, 1993, Sandiford and Divers, 2014. We also examined whether associations differed by gender (all analyses), as females are more likely to abstain from alcohol use, typically consume less alcohol than males, and are less likely to drink at harmful levels (Babor et al, 2010).…”

Participant Observation as Ethnography or Ethnography as Participant Observation in Organizational Research

“…However, during most of the fieldwork, it was clear that the employee role was most recognized by other participants given the nature of our interactions. The second study (Sandiford and Divers, 2011) was actually rather more difficult from a personal perspective; taking the role of customer in my local village pubs, I needed to renegotiate (with employers, customers, my co-fieldworker and myself) my position in those places as we both took on our additional role of fieldworker. This was more uncomfortable and challenging than I had expected as an experienced participant observer, mainly because I was beginning to observe professionally individuals and places that I was at least partly familiar with before the research began.…”