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Coffee brands, class, and culture in a canadian city. Well first i used to go to starbucks almost exclusively to me, tim hortons was more of the blue-collar kind of working man"s kind of place, so i dismissed it. I didn"t say that, but that"s what i was thinking but i realized i shouldn"t have those biases. Starbucks and tim hortons are two of the most established coffeehouse brands in. Tim hortons is a coffee and donut chain marketed to ordinary. Canadians", while starbucks is a specialty coffee franchise oriented towards discerning coffee connoisseurs". Bourdieu highlighted the role of cultural consumption in the reproduction of class hierarchies, focusing on the relationship between social class and taste. This is particularly developed through his concept of habitus": a learned system of dispositions, classificatory schemes, preferences and inclinations that are manifest in the body and practices such as taste, and shaped through various types of capital.