The changing impact of social background on lifestyle: “culturalization” instead of individualization?

VANEIJCK, K; Bargeman, B.

doi:10.1016/s0304-422x(04)00056-7

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“…Overall, and with caution, we conclude that both parental reading and television socialization are becoming more important factors in the process of cultural reproduction and social exclusion in modern societies. This finding of an increasing significance of cultural competencies supports the notion of an ''elitist rearguard'' in contemporary information-based societies (Knulst, 1992;Van Eijck & Bargeman, 2004).…”

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“…In modern or highly developed countries, also labelled ''information-rich'' and ''knowledge-based'' societies, cultural competencies are highly relevant for success in life (Norris, 2001;Pasquier, 2001;Van Eijck & Bargeman, 2004). We therefore might expect home media, as a form of cultural capital, to become more crucial in the reproduction of social inequality.…”

Section: Cross-national Differences In Media Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Home media and science performance: a cross-national study

Notten

Kraaykamp

2009

Educational Research and Evaluation

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Section: Cross-national Differences In Media Effectsmentioning

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Home media and science performance: a cross-national study

Notten

Kraaykamp

2009

Educational Research and Evaluation

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“…It is absolutely not my intention to deny the role of socio-demographic determinants on the formation of cultural profiles but rather to show the complexity of the links between them. My findings emphasize the important role of education for understanding the diversity of cultural profiles among visitors but they also underline the crucial impact of age, as the 'culturalization' thesis suggests it (van Eijck and Bargeman, 2004). People have more opportunity than before to choose between various cultural and leisure possibilities.…”

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confidence: 71%

Visitors to Modern and Contemporary Art Museums: Towards a New Sociology of ‘Cultural Profiles’

Hanquinet

2013

The Sociological Review

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Sociologists traditionally focus on the power of socio‐economic variables as drivers of attendance at museums. However, this research runs the risk of a certain socio‐economic reductionism which fails to register the aesthetic dimensions of cultural consumption. To remedy this, I propose a new focus on cultural profiles beyond the prism of SES, which allows us to better interpret the role of the art museum visit in visitors' daily life. The cultural profile is defined as a set of cultural, creative and leisure preferences and activities, towards various forms of art, which classify and can be classified. I use multiple correspondence analysis to examine the nature of cultural profiles among visitors of six museums of modern and contemporary art in Belgium. Six different cultural profiles are defined, each a ‘bricolage’ of different classifying registers that structure and define practices and tastes. My approach allows us to reconcile and elaborate current interests in cultural sociology about the relationship between high versus low culture (Bourdieu), experimentation versus classicism, transgression versus conservatism and omnivores versus univores (Peterson).

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“…For example, while the comedy omnivirousness of these respondents may, in a strict sense, have aided their ability to communicate with diverse social groups (Erickson, 1996), any potential social capital was undermined by the anxiety and 'mental conflict' (Lahire, 2011) that such culture switching seemed to induce. Moreover, there was even less evidence of MCC comedy eclecticism acting as a marker of cultural distinction or 'cool' (Bellevance, 2008;Van Eijk and Bergeman, 2004;Warde et al, 1999; For a Self Analysis written shortly before his death, mobile respondents displayed a fundamentally divided habitus -a habitus clivé -'torn by contradiction and internal division (Bourdieu, 2004: 161).…”

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Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile

Friedman

2012

Poetics

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Drawing on a large-scale survey of British comedy taste and 24 follow-up interviews, this paper strongly challenges existing representations of the cultural omnivore. Among comedy consumers, I only find omnivorousness among one social group; the upwardly mobile. However, notably, the culture switching of these respondents does not seem to yield the social benefits assumed by other omnivore studies. In contrast, the life histories of these respondents reveals that omnivorousness is more a bi-product of life trajectories -whereby lowbrow comedy taste is established during childhood but then highbrow taste is added as cultural capital resources grow. Permanent repository linkSignificantly, though, this combination of tastes has more negative than positive implications, leaving socially mobile respondents largely uncertain of their cultural identities. While they lack the 'natural' confidence to communicate new, more legitimate, tastes as embodied cultural capital, their upwardly mobile trajectory means they are also acutely aware that the tastes of their youth are socially unacceptable and aesthetically inferior. In short, these comedy consumers are more accurately described as culturally homeless, caught with one foot in two different taste cultures.

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The changing impact of social background on lifestyle: “culturalization” instead of individualization?

Cited by 23 publications

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Home media and science performance: a cross-national study

Home media and science performance: a cross-national study

Visitors to Modern and Contemporary Art Museums: Towards a New Sociology of ‘Cultural Profiles’

Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile

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