Omnivores Show up Again: The Segmentation of Cultural Consumers in Spanish Social Space

Sintas, Jordi López; Álvarez, Ercilia García

doi:10.1093/esr/18.3.353

Cited by 111 publications

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“…In general these studies support Lamont's claim of less rigid boundaries between consumers of high and popular culture (see also DiMaggio, 1987;Pakulski and Waters, 1996), with a growing body of international studies pointing to the existence of a 'cultural omnivore' (Peterson and Kern, 1996;Sintas and Alvarez, 2002;Keller and Vihalemm, 2003;Chan and Goldthorpe, 2005;Torche, 2010;Bukodi, 2010), a category of high status individuals who express an openness toward a larger range of culture products, consuming both high and popular culture, an eclectic taste which may represent a new status marker among high status individuals. Lower status individuals tend not to consume any high culture and are designated as 'cultural univores', as their cultural diet is restricted to low or popular forms.…”

Section: Social Stratification and Cultural Consumptionsupporting

confidence: 69%

A Cultural Map of Turkey

2013

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There is a growing body of empirical research on national patterns of cultural consumption and how they are related to social stratification. This paper helps to broaden the basis of comparison by focusing on cultural patterns in Turkey, a developing, non-Western, and predominantly Muslim context. Our analysis of cultural tastes and activities using data from a new nationally-representative survey shows three broad cultural clusters that clearly map onto differential positions in the social structure and are largely differentiated by degree and form of engagement with Turkey's emerging cultural diversity, particularly their orientation towards Western cultural forms. In general, local cultural modalities do not distinguish groups, attesting to the robustness of local culture. The results are discussed in light of previous work on cultural patterns in other national contexts.

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Section: Social Stratification and Cultural Consumptionsupporting

confidence: 69%

A Cultural Map of Turkey

2013

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“…Le taux d'autorecrutement des cadres, des employés et des professions intermédiaires (i.e. proportion d'actifs de chaque catégorie issus de parents de la même catégorie socioprofessionnelle), dont l'expansion a constitué depuis l'après-guerre le principal facteur de mobilité sociale, est ainsi par définition nettement plus faible que celui des ouvriers et des agriculteurs, et cette caractéristique est mise en avant par certains auteurs dans l'analyse de la montée de l'éclectisme des goûts et des pratiques culturelles au sein des classes supérieures (Van Eijck, 2001;Lopez Sintas et Garcia Alvarez, 2002). Selon ces auteurs, ce que la lecture des données fait apparaître de prime abord comme une modification du comportement culturel des classes supé-rieures traduit en réalité avant tout le rajeunissement et le renouvellement des élites.…”

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Classes sociales, pratiques culturelles et styles de vie

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2004

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Résumé Le modèle de la distinction (Bourdieu, 1979), qui postule l’homologie structurale de l’espace des goûts et des pratiques et de l’espace des positions sociales est aujourd’hui perturbé par l’apparition de formes de segmentation qui ne sont pas exclusivement reliées à des variables de classe sociale et par la montée de l’éclectisme des goûts et des pratiques des membres des classes supérieures. Ces évolutions, qui tiennent à la fragilisation du lien entre les classes supérieures et la culture savante ainsi qu’à la massification de l’éducation et de la culture, n’invalident cependant pas totalement le modèle de la distinction. Les goûts et les pratiques demeurent fortement liés aux variables de position sociale, mais la dimension symbolique des rapports de domination tend à perdre de son importance dans une société traversée par de fortes inégalités socioéconomiques qui sont de moins en moins structurées par des cultures de classe.

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“…This now well-worn thesis, originating in work on American music taste (Peterson and Kern 1996) but subsequently supported by more wide-ranging studies throughout the world (DiMaggio and Mukhtar 2004;van Eijck and Knulst 2005;Bennett et al 2009;Emmison 2003;Sintas and Álvarez 2002) argues that the contemporary privileged middle and upper classes no longer consume only legitimate culture but are better characterised as 'omnivores', happy to graze on both high and low culture.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cultural sociology and new forms of distinction

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In recent years growing sociological interest in new forms of cultural distinction has led some to argue that the advantages previously conveyed by the consumption of 'high' culture ' or 'omnivorousness' are being overwritten by the possession of what has been termed 'emerging cultural capital'. So far, though, this term has only been discussed in passing within empirical work and remains in need of further analytical specification. This special issue seeks to both critically interrogate and develop this concept by bringing together the work of leading cultural sociologists around four key themes: the role of age and generation in the formation of cultural capital; the power of visual display for distinction; the significance of new elite cultures; and the need for methodological pluralism to apprehend the expressions and mechanisms of distinction. This editorial introduction outlines the descriptive terrain on which the concept of emerging cultural capital has rested until now before exploring the common themes that sit across all five papers in the special issue.

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Omnivores Show up Again: The Segmentation of Cultural Consumers in Spanish Social Space

Cited by 111 publications

References 30 publications

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