Ethnicity, youth cultural participation, and cultural reproduction in the Netherlands

Abstract

The purpose of this research is the explanation of differences in cultural participation of adolescents of different ethnic backgrounds. Six hundred ninety-eight Dutch and ethnic minority adolescents in a large city in the Netherlands filled in a questionnaire about their active cultural participation (e.g., playing musical instruments, dancing, acting, drawing) and receptive cultural participation (e.g., going to classical concerts, plays, museums). The expected lower cultural participation among minority youth (i.e., youth whose parents had both been born in Morocco, Turkey or former Dutch colonies such as Surinam and the Dutch Antilles) was limited to Moroccan and Turkish youths' receptive cultural participation. Contrary to the acculturation hypothesis, we did not find any indication of a growing resemblance in youth cultural participation between the different ethnic groups. In keeping with Bourdieu's reproduction theory, it was examined whether well-educated parents with ample cultural capital raise children who are also successful in acquiring educational and cultural capital. The findings suggest that mothers play a key role. Mothers exert a far greater cultural influence on their daughters than on their sons. Moreover, the cultural influence of mothers on daughters www.elsevier.com/locate/poetic Poetics 34 (2006) 65-82 is much stronger than that of fathers. We conclude that intergenerational cultural reproduction affects Dutch and ethnic minority children in the same way. # 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Art and Socialisation

“…Apparently, the effect of final education rises during the life course and can be interpreted as the consequence of schooling. Other studies of adolescents corroborate the finding that the short-term effects of educational level are relatively small compared to the effects of education in adulthood (Van Wel et al, 2006). Nagel (2010) finds that in the period from adolescence to adulthood, the effects of education partly exist at the beginning of adolescence and partly increase as the educational career progresses.…”

“…Strong resemblances between parents' and children's contemporaneous arts participation are found in many studies (Crook, 1997;Damen et al, 2010;Jaeger, 2009;Sullivan, 2001;Van Wel et al, 2006;Willekens and Lievens, 2014), albeit to a lesser extent when parents report on their arts participation independently (Nagel, 2010). Interestingly, Van Wel et al (2006) and Willekens and Lievens (2014) show that a mother's influence is generally stronger than a father's influence.…”

“…Interestingly, Van Wel et al (2006) and Willekens and Lievens (2014) show that a mother's influence is generally stronger than a father's influence. Van Wel et al (2006) also find that her influence is stronger on her daughters than on her sons.…”

“…Interestingly, Van Wel et al (2006) and Willekens and Lievens (2014) show that a mother's influence is generally stronger than a father's influence. Van Wel et al (2006) also find that her influence is stronger on her daughters than on her sons. Although arts participation in adolescence is part of the socialization process itself, the contemporaneous effects of family imply that cultural careers start and take decisive turns quite early.…”

Gendered scrobbling: Listening behaviour of young adults on Last.fm

“…Furthermore, previous research among adults provides mixed evidence on how gender affects cultural consumption (Ollivier 2008), either finding no significant effect (Warde et al 1999) or an under-representation of women omnivores (Peterson and Kern 1996;Van Eijck 2001;Chan and Goldthorpe 2007). In contrast, studies among adolescents oftentimes find that girls are generally over-represented among omnivores, while boys are more often non-participants or popular music univores (Van Wel et al 2006;. A possible explanation might be that females use music more for mood regulation purposes (Colley 2008;Wells and Hakanen 1991), and as such are likely to switch between genres to satisfy a wider range of needs, while males use music mainly for identity formation and therefore more clearly distinguish likes from dislikes (North et al 2000).…”