Fele2020

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Fele2020
BibType ARTICLE
Key Fele2020
Author(s) Giolo Fele, Kenneth Liberman
Title Some Discovered Practices of Lay Coffee Drinkers
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Tag(s) EMCA, Tasting, Objectivation, Calibration, Accounts, Coffee tasters
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Year 2021
Language English
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Journal Symbolic Interaction
Volume 44
Number 1
Pages 40-62
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DOI 10.1002/symb.486
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Abstract

When lay coffee drinkers taste the coffee in their cups, the flavors they note are shaped by the local interaction that provides the context for the occasion. Three methods they use for identifying flavors are examined and described: clustering , or how flavor descriptors are articulated in ensembles during a collaborative process; objectivating , the concerted work of transforming tentative suggestions into objective findings; and calibrating , how drinkers align their practice of tasting in order to conform with—and make meaningful—the objectivated accounts. These microsocial practices continuously intrude upon tasting, and a serendipitously developed local order guides their taste identification. This does not mean that there is no real taste, only that the taste never stands apart from the social contingencies and the discursive practices that are developed to describe it.

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