Author(s): Figen KANBÄ°R
Since their emergence, coffeehouses have displayed the characteristics of empty places that are bearing sex codes. These settings have been the gathering places of men with an active position on the social domain. Thus, the coffeehouses have created networks of sharing among men. They come together in these places and preserve their identities. Today, with also the impact of the globalization, the traditional fabric of same-sex partnership is being loosened. Instead, women, men, and even children are coming together at modern coffeehouses (cafes). However, Siirt city coffeehouses, the subject of our study, preserve the advantages that socialization provides by displaying the characteristics of places, where the men feel themselves that they belong in. Men not only embrace these places to show that they are of age, but also adopt these places until their death. Thus, they benefit from all of the advantages of being together in a shared place. The aim of this study was to bring into question to what extent these habitues of coffeehouses attribute these places into the gendered narrative and that they consider these places privileged for themselves during socialization. The study involved the data collected between the July and the August of 2017, and it was conducted based on interview technique, which is one of the qualitative research method
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