American Regional Cultures and Differences in Leisure Time Activities

Marsden, Peter V.; Reed, John Shelton; Kennedy, Michael D.; Stinson, Kandi

doi:10.1093/sf/60.4.1023

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“…Regional subcultures, for instance, may play a part (DiMaggio and Peterson, 1975;Gastil, 1975). Within given regions, such cultural dispositions are likely to be transmissible from one generation to the next through the normal channels of socialization independent of structural influences (Hebdige, 1979;Lamont, Schmalzbauer, et al, 1996;Marsden and Reed, 1983;Marsden, Reed, et al, 1982). Demographic attributes on the individual level may also act independently of class, and their impact may change across a person's life course (Belloni, 1996;Collins, 1992;Erickson, 1996;Lamont and Lareau, 1988;Shaw, 1994).…”

Section: Class and Cultural Capitalmentioning

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The Uneven Distribution of Cultural Capital

2006

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Drawing on interviews with 400 couples in four cities in 1998, this exploratory study focuses on variation in reading habits to integrate the concept of cultural capital into the theoretical and empirical analysis of inequality and social stratification in contemporary urban China. Overall, we find that volume and composition of cultural capital varies across social classes independent of education. Thus, to the extent that cultural capital in the form of diversified knowledge and appreciation for certain genres or specific authors is unevenly distributed across social classes, we hypothesize that the possession of cultural capital may be a valuable resource in defining and crystallizing class boundaries in this hybrid, fast-changing society.

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Section: Class and Cultural Capitalmentioning

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The Uneven Distribution of Cultural Capital

2006

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“…To recall the creation and institute a day of absolute rest. The commandment to remember and observe the Sabbath brings people closer to God through engaging in an activity that is similar to the creator, and discovering the spirit of God and their purpose inside themselves (Marsden, Reed, Kennedy, & Stinson, 1982).…”

Section: The Universality Of the Sabbathmentioning

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The Sabbath, the Synagogue, and Leisure Culture: Jewish Tradition and Modernity

Davidovitch¹,

Lazar²

2017

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In this paper, we focus on the unique concept of the "Sabbath" (the Lord's Day) as a period of leisure in modern Israel and its features in terms of duration, activity, state of mind, and Jewish values. Against this backdrop, we discuss the functions that the synagogue continues to play in leisure culture in Israel, especially on the Sabbath. Synagogues enhance the significance of the Sabbath as a time of leisure, constitute a site of leisure activity, and promote leisure as a state of mind and a value in itself. Judaism has many faces, and this diversity is an integral part of the population's approach to leisure and its leisure practices. This article focuses on the orthodox Jewish concept of leisure, and may shed light on attitudes and practices of members of other religions that consider God's work the focal point of human life.

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“…We chose this benchmark because the "South is still singled out as the most peculiar of the American regions" (Marsden et al, 1982(Marsden et al, , p. 1023. The roots of this cultural divide have provoked discussion since Tocqueville (1840).…”

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“…Several research areas point out diverging normative imprinting in America's South (see, e.g. Lee et al, 2007;Marsden et al, 1982;Nisbett and Cohen, 1996), particularly stressing a Southern "culture of honor, in which even small disputes become contests for reputation and social status" (Cohen et al, 1996, p. 945).…”

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Using crowdsourced online experiments to study context-dependency of behavior

Keuschnigg

Bader

Bracher

2016

Social Science Research

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We use Mechanical Turk's diverse participant pool to conduct online bargaining games in India and the US. First, we assess internal validity of crowdsourced experimentation through variation of stakes ($0, $1, $4, and $10) in the Ultimatum and Dictator Game. For cross-country equivalence we adjust the stakes following differences in purchasing power. Our marginal totals correspond closely to laboratory findings. Monetary incentives induce more selfish behavior but, in line with most laboratory findings, the particular size of a positive stake appears irrelevant. Second, by transporting a homogeneous decision situation into various living conditions crowdsourced experimentation permits identification of context effects on elicited behavior. We explore contextdependency using session-level variation in participants' geographical location, regional affluence, and local social capital. Across "virtual pools" behavior varies in the range of stake effects. We argue that quasi-experimental variation of the characteristics people bring to the experimental situation is the key potential of crowdsourced online designs.

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American Regional Cultures and Differences in Leisure Time Activities

Cited by 39 publications

References 10 publications

The Uneven Distribution of Cultural Capital

The Uneven Distribution of Cultural Capital

The Sabbath, the Synagogue, and Leisure Culture: Jewish Tradition and Modernity

Using crowdsourced online experiments to study context-dependency of behavior

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