Comparing “Cosmopolitanism”: Taste, Nation and Global Culture in Finland and the UK

Wright, David; Purhonen, Semi; Heikkilä, Riie

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“…Notes 1 See, for example, Giddens, 1990;Robertson, 1992;Held, McGrew, Goldblatt and Perraton, 1999;Tomlinson, 1999;and Beck, 2000a. 2 See, for example, Lizardo, 2005;Woodward, Skrbis and Bean, 2008;Savage, Wright and Gay-Cal, 2010;Pichler, 2012;Cappeliez and Johnston, 2013;Meuleman and Savage, 2013;Regev, 2013;Wright et al, 2013;and Rössel and Schroedter, 2015. 3 Moreover, the origin of the cultural product was not coded, if the article type was an announcement/list.…”

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“…Moreover, the expectation is that culture from abroad would be increasingly received as positive and associated with high cultural legitimacy (cf. Wright, Heikkilä and Purhonen, 2013) because increased cultural heterogeneity (and its supposedly increased appreciation) should include a geographical dimension. Put differently, the ideals of cultural openness and tolerance are strongly related to cosmopolitanism and adventurous interestedness towards foreign cultures (Peterson, 2005;Ollivier, 2008;Wright et al, 2013).…”

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“…Wright, Heikkilä and Purhonen, 2013) because increased cultural heterogeneity (and its supposedly increased appreciation) should include a geographical dimension. Put differently, the ideals of cultural openness and tolerance are strongly related to cosmopolitanism and adventurous interestedness towards foreign cultures (Peterson, 2005;Ollivier, 2008;Wright et al, 2013). Overall, we will approach cultural globalization as intertwined with the trends of the rise of popular culture and the decline of classical highbrow arts (cf.…”

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Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology -the rise of the 'cultural omnivore', the fate of classical 'highbrow' culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture -deal with temporal changes. Yet, systematic research about these processes is scarce due to the lack of suitable longitudinal data. This book explores these questions through the lens of a crucial institution of cultural mediation -the culture sections in quality European newspapersfrom 1960 to 2010.Starting from the framework of cultural stratification and employing systematic content analysis both quantitative and qualitative of more than 13,000 newspaper articles, Enter Culture, Exit Arts? presents a synthetic yet empirically rich and detailed account of cultural transformation in Europe over the last five decades. It shows how classifications and hierarchies of culture have changed in course of the process towards increased cultural heterogeneity. Furthermore, it conceptualizes the key trends of rising popular culture and declining highbrow arts as two simultaneous processes: the one of legitimization of popular culture and the other of popularization of traditional legitimate culture, both important for the loosening of the boundary between 'highbrow' and 'popular'.Through careful comparative analysis and illustrative snapshots into the specific socio-historical contexts in which the newspapers and their representations of culture are embedded -in Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the UK -the book reveals the key patterns and diversity of European variations in the transformation of cultural hierarchies since the 1960s. The book is a collective endeavour of a large-scale international research project active between 2013 and 2018. Semi Purhonen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. Between 2013 and 2018, he worked as academy research fellow at the Academy of Finland and was the Director of the research project 'Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change', which lays the ground for the present book. His research interests are in the fields of cultural sociology, consumption, lifestyles and social stratification; sociology of age, generation and social change; and comparative research and sociological theory. Riie Heikkilä is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her main research interests include cultural capital, cultural consumption and social stratification, and comparative sociology in general. Her research project 'Understanding Cultural Disengagement in Contemporary Finland' has funding from the Academy of Finland until 2020. Irmak Karademir Hazır is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research focuses on topics such as taste, socio-cultural change, Bourdiesian analysis of Turkish consumption scene and embodiment. She has worked as a board member of the European Sociological Association, Consumption Research Ne...

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“…Emergent cultural capital is also ‘predominantly urban’ (Roose, 2015) and linked to a cosmopolitan orientation (Prieur and Savage, 2013). Moreover, studies show that, compared with their older counterparts, younger middle-class people are more likely to display tastes for popular culture, including trendy or emerging rather than classic or established cultural forms, and more likely to draw boundaries against highbrow culture (Bennett et al, 2009; Lizardo and Skiles, 2015; Savage et al, 2015; Wright et al, 2013). These patterns may indicate that there is a generational division between ‘a screen-based, Anglocosmopolitan commercial culture that is appropriated with a certain ironical stance’ favoured by younger people, ‘versus a Eurocentric, cerebral, ascetic and serious highbrow culture’ (Roose, 2015: 557) dominant among older middle-class groupings.…”

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Representing the middle-class ‘hipster’: Emerging modes of distinction, generational oppositions and gentrification

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This article explores how representations of the ‘hipster’ in newspapers and on blogs are bound up with processes of class distinction in contemporary Britain. The analysis demonstrates that the hipster is a contested middle-class social type who is the object of both denigration and prestige. The hipster is typically represented as a young person associated with the middle-class fraction of the cultural intermediaries who is engaged in a particular set of reflexive and trendy consumption practices, often performed in gentrified urban spaces and linked to the creative industries. The article suggests that the disputed status of ‘hipster cool’ is indicative of shifting class distinctions in cultural taste and classificatory struggles within the middle class between generational groupings that involve questions of authenticity. Such contestations are reflected by the increasing legitimacy of emerging forms of cultural capital rooted in popular culture and embraced by young people, and the waning symbolic power of traditional highbrow culture associated with an older generation of middle-class people. It is also argued that the classificatory struggles over hipster tastes and lifestyles have a spatial dimension as bound up with the public controversies and social anxieties linked to gentrification in neoliberal Britain.

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“…Globalized, cosmopolitan taste can be traced by measuring (e.g., through survey data) cosmopolitan cultural knowledge, tastes in world music, tastes based on preferences for foreign cuisines, or modes of actual cosmopolitan consumption (Meuleman and Savage, 2013;Rössel and Schroedter, 2015). Cosmopolitan cultural orientation and tastes also have been studied through qualitative methodologies (Cappeliez and Johnston, 2013;Savage et al, 2010;Wright et al, 2013).…”

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Cultural globalization on the printed page: Stability and change in the proportion of foreign cultural products in European quality newspapers, 1960–2010

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To bring empirical scrutiny to the often very general and theory-driven debates on cultural globalization and to broaden the geographical scope of previous studies on the topic, this paper presents an analysis of the changes in the relative weight of national and global culture in the culture sections of quality European newspapers from 1960 to 2010. Through content analysis of newspaper articles, the paper examines how the composition of geographical origin of the cultural products discussed has changed over a half-century. The paper asks whether globalizing trends exist in newspaper coverage of culture or whether coverage of national culture remains dominant; to what degree is there variation, based on the art form discussed; and whether newspapers embedded in their national contexts differ from each other in these respects. The results show only a moderate increase in coverage of global products. However, clear trends were found that are associated with both the geographical origin of cultural products and art forms discussed in the articles, highlighting that post-1960s cultural globalization is best understood as being intertwined with the rise of popular culture and the corresponding decline of traditional -and very European -highbrow culture.

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Comparing “Cosmopolitanism”: Taste, Nation and Global Culture in Finland and the UK

Abstract: This paper adds a comparative perspective to the study of taste, cosmopolitanism and social organisation.

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Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

Representing the middle-class ‘hipster’: Emerging modes of distinction, generational oppositions and gentrification

Cultural globalization on the printed page: Stability and change in the proportion of foreign cultural products in European quality newspapers, 1960–2010

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