Cultural participation in Flanders: Testing the cultural omnivore thesis with population data

Stichele, Alexander Vander; Laermans, Rudi

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2005.09.002

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“…During the last two decades, researchers around the world have shown the prevalence of cultural omnivorousness in a variety of social settings (e.g. Peterson & Kern, 1996;Peterson, 2005;Stichele & Laermans, 2006;van Eijck & Lievens, 2008;van Eijck, 2001). Some researchers have focused on 'volume' measurements, based on a score or a scale that counts the number of genres a person likes in order to quantify the 'voraciousness' of a cultural consumer (e.g.…”

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Music classification, genres, and taste patterns: A ground-up network analysis on the clustering of artist preferences

Vlegels

Lievens

2017

Poetics

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Music classification, genres, and taste patterns: A ground-up network analysis on the clustering of artist preferences

Vlegels

Lievens

2017

Poetics

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“…show, indeed, that people tend combine high culture with popular culture more and more (Peterson and Kern, 1996;Van Eijck, 2001;Vander Stichele and Laermans, 2006), and that the participation in high culture is decreasing among recent cohorts (Van Eijck and Knulst, 2005;Dimaggio and Mukhtar, 2004). Still, the dierence between highbrow and popular cultural activities and how they evolve, is worth studying.…”

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“…However, since Peterson (1992), a number of studies suggested that it is not just the participation in highbrow cultural events that is indicative of an elite lifestyle. Instead, the ability to combine highbrow culture with popular culture in an omnivorous lifestyle would have become the more relevant demarcation line between higher and lower social status groups (see, among others, Peterson and Kern, 1996;Van Eijck, 1999Van Eijck and Knulst, 2005;Peterson, 2005;Vander Stichele and Laermans, 2006;Chan and Goldthorpe, 2007;Warde et al, 2008). Various empirical results…”

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Did Cultural and Artistic Education in the Netherlands increase Student Participation in High Cultural Events?

Damen¹,

Klaveren

2013

De Economist

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This study examines whether Cultural and Artistic Education that was implemented by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 1999 caused students to participate more in high cultural events. A unique feature of the intervention was that students were free to choose the type of cultural event they participated in. So the intervention relied on the intrinsic motivation of students to participate in high cultural events, while there was no reason to assume that this motivation was present given the existing literature.We nd that Cultural and Artistic Education did increase the student participation in high culture, but did not increase student participation in popular culture. The eect of the intervention is, however, small. While student characteristics did not aect the observed dierences in high cultural participation over time, the fraction of immigrant students in the class did: the lower this fraction, the more students participate in high cultural events. Finally, the eect seems to represent (at least partly) the intrinsic motivation of students for high culture.JEL Codes: A2, Z1

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“…Upper social strata, instead of being omnivorous, could indeed fragment into a multitude of homogenous sub-clusters, but other statistical works have shown the occurrence of omnivorous patterns at the individual level (e.g. Vander Stichele and Laermans, 2006).…”

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Exploring Dissonance and Omnivorousness: Another Look into the Rise of Eclecticism

Hanquinet

2016

Cultural Sociology

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The debate over the rise of eclecticism, more particularly Peterson's 'omnivore thesis', has received much attention over recent years. For Lahire, eclecticism reflects less an increasing individual openness to a variety of cultural styles than intra-individual dissonances. Based on a large survey into cultural practices in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium -N = 2021), this article compares these two notions with the aim of understanding the complexity of the structural relations that organise cultural tastes and practices into 'cultural profiles'. I argue that omnivorousness cannot be reduced to dissonance but instead both notions characterise different configurations of cultural choices. More importantly, I show that identifying omnivorous and dissonant patterns matters less than understanding how these patterns emerge from tensions between existing and emerging cultural hierarchies at the individual and social levels.

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Cultural participation in Flanders: Testing the cultural omnivore thesis with population data

Cited by 79 publications

References 16 publications

Music classification, genres, and taste patterns: A ground-up network analysis on the clustering of artist preferences

Music classification, genres, and taste patterns: A ground-up network analysis on the clustering of artist preferences

Did Cultural and Artistic Education in the Netherlands increase Student Participation in High Cultural Events?

Exploring Dissonance and Omnivorousness: Another Look into the Rise of Eclecticism

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