Cultural consumption across countries: A multi-level analysis of social inequality in highbrow culture in Europe

Hek, Margriet van; Kraaykamp, Gerbert

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2013.05.001

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“…To the extent that cultural consumption is driven by non-cognitive motivations, here labeled as status motives, contextual characteristics are thus likely to be relevant in explaining variation in the association between education and cultural participation. Previous research indeed found different cultural consumption patterns, related to social background characteristics, in a range of countries including the United States, Great Britain, Finland, France, Spain, and the Netherlands (e.g., Alderson et al 2007;Chan and Goldthorpe 2007b;DiMaggio 1987;Ganzeboom 1989;Van Hek and Kraaykamp 2013;Lamont 1992;López-Sintas and Garzía-Á lvarez 2002;Purhonen et al 2011;Ultee et al 1993).…”

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Educational stratification in cultural participation: cognitive competence or status motivation?

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This article examines educational stratification in highbrow cultural participation. There are two contrasting explanations of why cultural participation is stratified. The status hypothesis predicts that people come to appreciate particular forms of art because it expresses their belonging to a certain social group. The cognitive hypothesis stipulates that cultural participation depends on a person's cognitive abilities, which is why educational stratification in cultural consumption is so evident, especially among consumers of high culture. However, to test these explanations, previous work predominantly relied on an individual's level of education, thus confounding the two mechanisms. We test the status and cognitive hypothesis using data from the International Adult Literacy Survey, covering 18 countries. First, by including an individual's literacy skills, we separate the effect of cognitive ability from that of education. The remaining effect of education can be seen as a better measure of the status-related motives for cultural participation. Second, we examine whether stratification varies across countries. The findings show that the status-related effect of education on cultural participation is smaller in societies with larger educational expansion and intergenerational educational mobility. This is in line with the status explanation, which holds that boundaries N. Notten (&)

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“…Uit nationaal en internationaal onderzoek naar cultuurparticipatie staat onomstotelijk vast dat hoger opgeleiden meer aan hoge cultuur deelnemen dan lager opgeleiden (Ganzeboom, 1989;Notten e.a., 2013;Van Hek & Kraaykamp, 2013 De resultaten van onze bijdrage laten echter ook zien dat cultuurparticipatie onder hoog opgeleide allochtonen op een beduidend lager niveau ligt in vergelijking met de hoog opgeleide autochtone Nederlander. Om dit beter te kunnen begrijpen zijn in deze studie twee specifieke verwachtingen voor cultuurparticipatie onder migranten nader uitgewerkt, de zogenaamde identificatieverklaring en de sociale netwerkverklaring.…”

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Cultuurparticipatie van Turken en Marokkanen in Nederland - Toetsing van een identificatie- en sociale netwerkverklaring

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2014

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Cultural participation of Turkish and Moroccans in the Netherlands. Testing an identification and social network explanation Research on social differentiation in cultural participation traditionally focuses on educational or income inequalities. With respect to ethnic differences in highbrow culture relatively little is known. Employing recent data from the Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (2010) we explore to what extent educational differentiation in cultural participation among Turkish and Moroccan minorities is mediated and moderated by aspects of identification and integration. Our study shows that ethnic minority members, who identify themselves more with the Netherlands and participate in a social network with Dutch friend and higher educated friends, are more active in the highbrow cultural realm. A most interesting result is that identification with Dutch society actually moderates the relationship between an individual’s education and cultural participation; higher educated from Turkish and Moroccan decent who identify more with the Netherlands participate more in elitist culture than higher educated low in their identification with the Netherlands.

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“…The sustainable lifestyles are widely recognized but oftencontested descriptions of how citizens or consumers conduct conscious or habitual practices that benefit the local or global environment, drawing more on the social than the individual as a frame of reference (Barr, 2015). Van Hek and Kraaykamp (2013) have measured the associations between cultural consumption and the individual and contextual (country-level) characteristics and observed that highbrow cultural consumption is affected by a nation's wealth, social mobility level, and level of cultural funding and supply, and advanced an explanation according to which specific country characteristics related to governmental policies and economic, cultural and historical development could increase highbrow cultural consumption among all population's layers. Anticipatedly, Aoyama (2007) suggested that rise of the cultural industries will be facilitated not by the material status or consumers' education but by growing popularity of leisure and entertainment activities and capacities of these industries to provide an experience, a new and growing source of value in the economy, in commodified and uncommodified forms.…”

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Cultural Consumption as a Trait of a Sustainable Lifestyle: Evidence from the European Union

Vegheș¹

2020

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At a first sight, the consumption of cultural goods, services, events, and activities is expected to improve significantly the individual's wellbeing and quality of life and, reciprocally, overall good quality of life should stimulate the cultural access, participation, and consumption. First evidence that things could stay differently comes from the European Union where, paradoxically, the relatively high overall quality of life does not correspond to a similar level of cultural access, participation, and consumption. Are there significant connections between the consumption of cultural goods, services, events, and activities and the overall quality of life? Does cultural consumption contribute to a sound improvement of the individual's quality of life? May cultural consumption be defined as a trait of a sustainable lifestyle? These are the main questions this paper aims to answer based on the secondary data regarding cultural access, participation, and consumption, and quality of life at the level of the European Union. Keywords: Cultural consumption, quality of life, sustainable development

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Cultural consumption across countries: A multi-level analysis of social inequality in highbrow culture in Europe

Cited by 69 publications

References 26 publications

Educational stratification in cultural participation: cognitive competence or status motivation?

Educational stratification in cultural participation: cognitive competence or status motivation?

Cultuurparticipatie van Turken en Marokkanen in Nederland - Toetsing van een identificatie- en sociale netwerkverklaring

Cultural Consumption as a Trait of a Sustainable Lifestyle: Evidence from the European Union

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