The bar, a place of sorrow, sports and the place to forget your problems through drunkiness. Thats how I saw it, mostly thats how the show The Simpson portrayed it. I never though of it as a place of “social identity”. The Idea of “class culture” in a tavern was alien to me untill I started to read the entire artical. Maybe in a Briitsh Pub you words class and culture in the same sentance, but I never thought it would be at a bar in a suburb of Chicago. In on instance the regular patron of the bar were in a heated discussion on a pice of artwork at the Chicago Art Institute. One of the regulars said that the author would agree with the artist conraversial pice. I think they were trying to mock the author as an educated liberal and giving her no way to intervect her real opinion about the subject. So it seems that even though bars are suppost to be a public sancuary for people above the drinking age, the exact opposit is true. So it seems that you never know where or when you can do a socologic study on people.
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November 6, 2006 at 8:13 pm
I think you make a really important reference to The Simpsons here, yet you distinguish both the show and its portrayal of bar from having to do with “social identity” and “class culture.” What is The Simpsons about if it is not about society, identity, class, etc.? How do you identify the Simpsons–class wise? What “clues” does the show give you that allow you to read the Simpsons as such?
December 11, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I’m frequently searching for recent infos in the internet about this issue. Thanks!