Name: ベン・クッシング社会学とコーヒー (Ben Cushing Sociology & Coffee)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:18:11.000Z
Duration: 8 min 36 s
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SPEAKER 1: Sociology has this wonderful way of taking things

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that seem mundane and revealing them to be beautifully complex.

For a lot of us coffee is a steady part of our routine that goes

But if we look at our coffee sociologically we can actually use

it as a window into our society and into ourselves.

And the fact that I can stand here and take this drug and not lose my

credibility reflects the fact that, in our culture, some drugs

are accepted while others are stigmatized.

Yet also within our culture there are subcultural groups in which

So for example in Mormon culture to consume coffee is to transgress

So if I look at my coffee hard enough, I can actually see

Coffee is connected with a lot more than that.

So for example, coffee is connected to cultural rituals.

For a long time I went without drinking coffee at all in my life,

and I would still find myself frequently asking people around me

And the thing was I wasn't just inviting them to go

I was really inviting them to sit down and have a

Because in our culture, drinking coffee is a ritual of

So for example, when we walk around with a coffee cup, we're

sort of telling the people around us a story about who we are, about

Whether we drink out of a 7-Eleven hand-me-down plastic mug or

whether we drink out of a very hip Stumptown labeled cup speaks a lot

to where we are situated within this deeply,

It also speaks to our individual politics, into our values.

For example I know people who wouldn't be caught dead with a

So what's especially interesting about this is that this prop that

we use to tell people a story about who we are, is

simultaneously a prop that we use to tell ourselves a story about

So within this deeply consumer oriented society, we're constantly

encouraged by advertisers to achieve our identity.

And express this identity to ourselves and to others by way of

the commodities that we buy, by way of the

So there might be Starbucks people and Stumptown people and that's an

I grew up drinking English breakfast tea all the time.

My parents haven't gone 35 years-- probably one day in 35 years,

So tea, like coffee, is all tied up in identity.

English cultural rituals, English identity, is all tied up in tea.

What I find to be especially fascinating about this is that

never in the history of England has there been a tea

So the question arises why is tea so quintessentially English?

And I think the answer is because colonialism is.

So tea is grown in the former colonized world.

England adopted the cultural practices of tea drinking as a

result of colonizing tea drinking peoples.

So there's really no English identity today without India.

Importantly many of the economic relationships of colonialism are

actually mimicked today within the global economy.

So tea and coffee are still grown in the tropics by the rural poor

and consumed largely in the former colonial powers.

And like before, this massive tea and coffee industry mostly

benefits the large companies and corporations that rule it and not

so much the farmers and the laborers who do the work.

So when I drink my coffee I'm actually participating in the

And this global economy wields incredible influence

So for example, coffee's the second largest import into the

When I buy and consume this coffee I'm participating in very powerful

And I'm also participating in thousands of personal

relationships of which I am almost always completely unaware.

So somebody grew my coffee-- somebody with a name, and a life,

and all the personal complexities that you have and that I have.

Even though I don't know them, I think I can make some educated

For example, they're poor, they live in a rural area, they live in

Say the guy who grew my coffee was named Miguel.

Or one of the people who grew my coffee and

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