Class and everyday media use: A case study from Norway

Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Rosenlund, Lennart

doi:10.2478/nor-2021-0030

Cited by 10 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 27 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…On a broad level the set of media practices of the ECMC uncovered here (e.g. using a range of streaming services, consuming ‘quality news’ and frequent use of social media) fits with previous findings on the media practices of this class fraction (Hovden and Rosenlund, 2021; Lindell, 2018). What likely sets this group apart from other, less well-resourced, young segments in the social space is their media/cultural omnivorousness (Peterson and Kern, 1996) and the digital nature of their media practices (Purhonen et al, 2021).…”

Section: Results and Analysissupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Social agents in this region of the social space have, moreover, been shown to position themselves against the economic fraction of the middle and upper classes through an ‘aversion towards “the rich”’ (Jarness, 2015: 7). In terms of media practices, this social group seems more digitally oriented and also drawn towards ‘legitimate’ media practices (such as reading classical books and national newspapers) (Hovden and Rosenlund, 2021; Purhonen et al, 2021). In qualitative research relatively well-off groups have also been shown to display creative rather than task-oriented media practices (Robinson, 2009), and holding information-rich and cosmopolitan media repertoires (Danielsson, 2014; Lindell and Danielsson, 2017).…”

Section: Class Making: From Homologies To Anticipated Stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cultural studies, in turn, was constructed with the ambition to study subaltern groups and media reception (Kim, 2004; Morley, 2005). And, the import of Bourdieu’s theoretical-methodological programme into media studies led scholars to study the correspondences between social positions and a range of media practices (Hovden and Rosenlund, 2021; Lindell, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus

Lindell,

Kas

2023

Media, Culture & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The relationship between media practices and social inequality has been studied within a range of sub-disciplines in media and communication studies and cultural sociology. In various, more or less direct, ways these studies point to the fact that habitus – the socially formed class specific relations to the social world – generates certain tastes, lifestyles, practices and preferences. When social groups form relatively distinct media practices, and distance themselves from the practices of other groups, they reproduce their social position, and ‘make’ their class. By analysing in-depth interviews with members of an emerging cultural middle-class, this study shows how class-making also manifests in the ways in which people expect that others would ‘look down’ on their media practices. By anticipating stigma from imagined others, the cultural middle-class stays in line with class-specific lifestyles and media practices, thus cementing their distinct character in the social space.

show abstract

Section: Results and Analysissupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Class Making: From Homologies To Anticipated Stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus

Lindell,

Kas

2023

Media, Culture & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…But it is also a very selective internationalism, which tends to represent an orientation to anglophone cultures, reflecting the status of English language as the dominant mode of global scientific and business communication. Those with high volumes of capital, and especially cultural, more often seek out international sources of news, such as CNN, The Guardian and Huffington Post (even in Norway ‐ Hovden & Rosenlund, 2021, p. 134). Savage et al.…”

Section: Key Dimensions Of Young People's Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital

Prieur

Savage

Flemmen

2023

British Journal of Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable support is given in later scholarship for Bourdieu's model of the social space, as the overall volume of economic and cultural capital combined is regularly found to be the most important axis of opposition, just as in Bourdieu's work Distinction. Yet, while Bourdieu found the second axis to be structured by an opposition between those with cultural rather than economic capital, and vice versa, many later studies instead find oppositions between the young and the old to structure the second axis. Up till now, this finding has not been adequately addressed. In this paper, we hold that considering age-related inequalities offers a powerful way of interpreting recent developments in order to understand the changing stakes of cultural capital, and also their interaction with the intensification of inequalities in economic capital. After a theoretical clarification of the relationship between cultural capital and youth, we will synthesise research on young people and explore the significance of youthful cultural consumption. We will pragmatically focus on the 15-30 years old and put a particular accent on Norwegian studies in our review, as they are the most sophisticated in this genre. Four areas are explored: the restricted role of classical culture; the appeal of popular

show abstract

“…Die Vernachlässigung der sozialen Klasse als analytische Kategorie ist, wie bereits er wähnt, ein deutscher Sonderfall: Weitet man den Blick auf die internationale Forschung, lässt sich eine Reihe an Publikationen finden, welche unter Anwendung des Klassenkonzep tes, namentlich in seiner durch Bourdieu geprägten Fassung, Diskrepanzen in der Medien nutzung herausstellen (Hovden & Rosenlund, 2021;Lindell, 2020;Lindell & Danielsson, 2017;Yates & Lockley, 2018;Yates, Kirby & Lockley, 2015). Um an den internationalen Forschungsstand anzuschließen, wird in dieser Studie die Mediennutzung sozialer Klassen anhand des Reckwitzschen Drei-Klassenmodells analysiert, welches ebenfalls in der Traditi on von Pierre Bourdieu (1984) steht.…”

unclassified

Mediennutzung – eine Frage der sozialen Klasse? Aktivierung einer soziologischen Kategorie für die Kommunikationswissenschaft am Beispiel des Klassenmodells von Andreas Reckwitz

Polkowski¹,

Jandura²

2023

M&K

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In den Sozialwissenschaften wird seit geraumer Zeit wieder von einer Klassengesellschaft gesprochen. Lange dominierten in den Sozialstrukturanalysen die Thesen von Individualisierung, Differenzierung und Entproletarisierung als Ergebnis der Modernisierung der Gesellschaften. Vor allem infolge der zunehmenden sozialen Ungleichheit in den westlichen Industriegesellschaften erleben Klassenkonzepte derzeit eine Renaissance. Ein besonders in der deutschen Soziologie kontrovers diskutierter Vorschlag stammt von Andreas Reckwitz. Der Soziologe hat vor dem Hintergrund der ökonomischen, politischen und sozialen Transformationen der letzten Jahrzehnte ein neues Klassenschema entwickelt. Wir nutzen sein Drei-Klassen-Modell, um am Beispiel der Kettenhypothese der Fragmentierungsforschung zu demonstrieren, dass sozialstrukturelle und klassentheoretische Ansätze auch für die Kommunikationswissenschaft fruchtbar sind und wiederentdeckt werden sollten. Die Befunde unserer Analyse zeigen, dass hinsichtlich der Informationsquellen, Themenhorizonte und Netzwerke interpersonaler Kommunikation deutliche Unterschiede zwischen den Klassen bestehen. Zwar sind diese nicht derartig gravierend, dass von einer Fragmentierung entlang von Klassenlinien gesprochen werden kann, jedoch bergen die Differenzen durchaus das Potenzial, gesellschaftliche Spaltungstendenzen zu intensivieren.

show abstract

Class and everyday media use: A case study from Norway

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus

Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus

Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital

Mediennutzung – eine Frage der sozialen Klasse? Aktivierung einer soziologischen Kategorie für die Kommunikationswissenschaft am Beispiel des Klassenmodells von Andreas Reckwitz

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About