Social Status and Newspaper Readership

Chan, Tak Wing; Goldthorpe, John H.

doi:10.1086/508792

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“…In particular, it looks at attendance at cultural performances and reading books. These two activities represent both status motivations and cognitive aspects of cultural consumption (e.g., Chan and Goldthorpe 2007a;Rössel 2011).…”

Section: Cultural Activities and Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Cultural Activities and Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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“…Doherty's mother reportedly 'took great pride in bringing up her children in a more middle-class environment than the one she'd enjoyed' ( To study to what extent journalists frame Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty differently in relation to their rock and roll lifestyle, we examined two British broadsheet newspapers: The Guardian and The Independent. Since these broadsheets target -and are read by -the educated elite in high-status (non-manual professional and managerial) occupations (Chan and Goldthorpe 2007), they are likely to have a strong impact on how other media and society in general discuss a particular topic. We limit the studied period from the year Amy Winehouse (2006) respectively, were certified platinum.…”

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“…Focusing on women only, previous studies have indeed shown that music critics often act more like 'men' than as journalists, representing female artists as women -instead of musicianscomparing them to other women only (Davies 2001 Second, broadsheet journalists might hold both artists accountable to transnational business masculinity, as their readers consist of, amongst others, the managerial elite (Chan and Goldthorpe 2007). Independence, authority, and self-assertiveness are important in the practice of both masculinities.…”

Section: Rock Masculinity Accountabilities and Complicit Media Pracmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rock and roll or rock and fall? Gendered framing of the rock and roll lifestyles of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty in British broadsheets

Berkers¹,

Eeckelaer²

2013

Journal of Gender Studies

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Combining insights from gender, popular music, and celebrity studies, this article addresses to what extent British broadsheets frame Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty differently with regard to their rock and roll lifestyle. Our content analyses of The Guardian and The Independent indicate clear gender differences. First, Doherty's excessive behavior is often framed in positive terms (rock and roll), while the media discuss Winehouse's conduct more negatively (rock and fall). Second, British newspaper journalists admire Doherty's courage to lead such a lifestyle, oftentimes justifying -or even negating -his behavior, arguing he is an independent individual or even a hero. Such adoration is absent when Winehouse's escapades are reported on; most articles treat her as a victim, expressing concern regarding her poor health. As such, our findings show how music journalists use relational complicit practices -admiration/justification/negation of male and victimization of female enactment of hegemonic masculinity -to maintain masculine monopoly over the archetypical rock and roll lifestyle.

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“…And if addressees convey shared social features, not only are their linguistic traits revealed to us, but also the sociolinguistic shifting parameters (register, diastratic and/or diaphasic traits) of the sociolect in question. A number of studies have demonstrated "a strong and systematic association between status and newspaper readership" (Chan & Goldthorpe, 2007: 1125.…”

Section: Decoding a Sociolect Through Text-samplesmentioning

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Anglicisms and calques in upper social class in pre-revolutionary Cuba (1930–1959): A sociolinguistic analysis

Fajardo

Antonio²

2016

ijes

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The geographical proximity and socioeconomic dependence on the United States brought about a deep-rooted anglicization of the Cuban Spanish lexis and social strata, especially throughout the Neocolonial period . This study is based on the revision of a renowned newspaper of that time, Diario de la Marina, and the corresponding elaboration of a corpus of English-induced loanwords. Diario de la Marina particularly targeted upper social class, and only crónicas sociales (society pages' columns) and print advertising were revised because of their fully descriptive texts, which encoded the ruling class ideology and consumerism. The findings show that there existed a high number of lexical and cultural anglicisms in the sociolect in question, and that the sociolinguistic anglicization was openly embraced by the upper socioeconomic stratum, entailing a differentiating sign of sophistication and social stratification. Likewise, a number of the anglicisms collected, particularly those related with social events, are unused in contemporary Cuban Spanish, which suggests a major semantic shifting in this sociolect after 1959.

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Social Status and Newspaper Readership

Cited by 137 publications

References 35 publications

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

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

Rock and roll or rock and fall? Gendered framing of the rock and roll lifestyles of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty in British broadsheets

Anglicisms and calques in upper social class in pre-revolutionary Cuba (1930–1959): A sociolinguistic analysis

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