Identity and Performance in Restaurants

Mgr. Paul Poitras

Diplomová práce

Anotace:

This paper will discuss different methods that restaurants use to express their identity, in what ways they act as symbols of identity, and how they act as social performances of identity. The specific focus is on foreign restaurants in Brno, and how different cultural scripts interact in the realm of the restaurant. The analysis will cover how restaurants tend to frame and structure symbolic meaning. The collected data will include interviews with owners and staff, restaurant names, the menus, and various aesthetic observations. The analysis itself will be focused on Erving Goffman's and Jeffrey Alexander’s works on performance and presentation.

Abstract:

This paper will discuss different methods that restaurants use to express their identity, in what ways they act as symbols of identity, and how they act as social performances of identity. The specific focus is on foreign restaurants in Brno, and how different cultural scripts interact in the realm of the restaurant. The analysis will cover how restaurants tend to frame and structure symbolic meaning. The collected data will include interviews with owners and staff, restaurant names, the menus, and various aesthetic observations. The analysis itself will be focused on Erving Goffman's and Jeffrey Alexander’s works on performance and presentation.

Keywords

Cultural Sociology, Food, Identity, Performance, Dramaturgy, Restaurants

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 4. 1. 2017

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 23. 1. 2017
• Vedoucí: Dr. Werner Binder
• Oponent: Mgr. et Mgr. Gábor Oláh, Ph.D.

Masarykova univerzita

Fakulta sociálních studií

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Sociologie / Kulturní sociologie (angl.)