The great divide? Cultural capital as a predictor of television preferences among Croatian youth

Banal Cosmopolitanism? Values and Cultural Repertoires of Youth in Adriatic Croatia

“…One of the most important elements of determining the taste and cultural consumption is the language (Krolo et al, 2016), where lowbrow cultural taste forms around popular and traditional genres almost exclusively in Croatian (with the exception of commercial foreign music), while taste in foreign cultural products has a high correlation with highbrow genres. A similar constellation was identified in TV preferences, where there is a clear division along linguistic lines (Krolo et al, 2020).…”

“…First, one-way ANOVA was conducted on all indices and then Scheffe post-hoc test was used to determine significant differences between the cluster. This methodological simplicity (for a methodologically more detailed insight into TV preferences within the same research see Krolo et al, 2020) reflects relative straightforwardness of the basic argument: that there is a clear connection between values and cultural taste and that it can be expressed on a broad theoretical level, thus not requiring more sophisticated analysis. The stress is on how certain forms of culture group together.…”

“…The decision to use cluster analysis was guided by the idea that we would like to present the size of the clusters as representatives of value positions. While we are aware that explaining the influence of various variables would be more informative in a sense of their individual contributions, it was a broader picture that we wanted to show in this article, while more detailed analysis of relations between different aspects of cultural taste and consumption and values can be found in our earlier work (Krolo et al, 2020;Tonković et al, 2020). 6.…”

“…Foreign fiction TV was the second factor, comprising five items like foreign fantasy and science-fiction shows, foreign crime shows, blockbuster movies, foreign comedy shows and indie/art movies with factor loading range 0.771–0.527 (Cronbach α = 0.79). For a more detailed insight into these two indices in the context of cultural capital see Krolo et al (2020). Third factor, sports and news , was composed of three items: sport TV shows and broadcasts, documentary movies and TV shows and daily news with factor loading range 0.801–0.509 (Cronbach α = 0.60).…”

Bourdieu’s theorization of social capital in the analysis of South-East European societies

“…23 For example, the analysis of television genre preferences of high-school students in six larger cities on Croatia's Adriatic coast, presented recently in Krolo et al (2019), identified two types of taste in television: domestic television spectacles and foreign fiction television. The authors interpret this division as resulting from differences in parental cultural capital and indicating "cultural seclusion" vs. "global cultural cosmopolitism".…”