Exploring patterns of children’s cultural participation: parental cultural capitals and their transmission

Abstract

Cultural participation during childhood significantly impacts an individual’s chances of future social mobility and well-being. Research to date has focused disproportionately on adults’ cultural practices, failing to comprehensively examine how children’s cultural participation is formed, structured and linked to their parents’. Drawing upon data from the Taking Part Survey, this article first examines the cultural profiles that emerge in children’s participation in England (including highbrow, eclectic, popular or restricted) and then employs regression techniques to disentangle the effects of parental capital (level of education versus cultural participation profile) on children’s cultural profiles. The analysis provides the greater granularity needed to understand the relative strength and significance of parentally embodied versus institutionalised cultural capital in children’s varying forms of engagement with arts and culture. While the patterns of intergenerational transmission revealed in the study largely confirm the role of institutionalised cultural capital in the reproduction of cultural inequality, they also reveal the significance of parental participation for children’s cultural participation. This highlights the need to approach cultural mobility and arts engagement policies at the household level rather than targeting children individually.

Contribution of cultural interests to subjective well-being of youth in Serbia

“…Moreover, previous studies showed that cultural participation has even more general effects on both personal and social levels, but it also seems that it is necessary to develop it early in life (Elsley & McMellon, 2010;Gray, 1998;Leguina et al, 2022., Oskala et al, 2009. Immediate effects of cultural participation in childhood are numerous, such as development of creative skills, self-confidence, and consequently they have a positively impact on their academic and social development (Andersen & Jaeger, 2015;Jindal-Snape et al, 2018;Ovink & Veazey, 2011;Valenzuela & Codina, 2014;Williams et al, 2015).…”

“…посећивање културних догађаја). Тезу о раном формирању укуса и мотивације за учешћем у културним активностима поткрепљују многе истраживачке студије и данас се сматра аксиомом (Blood et al, 2016;Bungay & Vella-Burrows, 2013;Cvetičanin, 2007;Kern, 1997;Leguina et al, 2022;Mak & Fancourt, 2020Stevens et al, 2019;Van Ejick, 1999).…”

“…Штавише, раније студије су показале да културна партиципација има још општије ефекте како на личном, тако и на друштвеном нивоу, али и да је неопходно да се развија рано у животу (Elsley & McMellon, 2010;Gray, 1998;Leguina et al, 2022., Oskala et al, 2009. Непосредни ефекти културне партиципације у детињству су бројни, као што су развој креативних вештина и самопоуздања, а самим тим и позитивно утичу на академски и социјални развој (Andersen & Jaeger, 2015;Jindal-Snape et al, 2018;Ovink & Veazey, 2011;Valenzuela & Codina, 2014;Williams et al, 2015).…”

“…Through motivation to participate in any form of cultural consumption or production, cultural interests of children and young people encourage the formation of cultural habits and tastes (behaviour at an early age, e.g., attending cultural events). The thesis about the early formation of taste and motivation to participate in cultural activities is supported by many research studies and today it is considered an axiom (Blood et al, 2016;Bungay & Vella-Burrows, 2013;Cvetičanin 2007;Kern 1997;Leguina et al, 2022;Mak & Fancourt, 2020Stevens et al, 2019;Van Ejick 1999).…”

Sukcesja codzienności. Mechanizmy międzypokoleniowej transmisji stylów życia polskiej klasy średniej

“…Choć niektórzy badacze podają argumenty na rzecz rozluźniania związków między klasą a stylem życia (Featherstone 1987;Bauman 2006;Beck, Giddens, Lash 2009;Lahire 2008), badania empiryczne innych wykazują powiązania pomiędzy kulturowym a społecznym wymiarem stratyfikacji, wspierając tezę o ich homologii (Petev 2013;Rosenlund 2019;Weingartner, Rössel 2019;van Eijck, Bargeman 2004). Ustalenia Bourdieu, eksponujące rolę pochodzenia społecznego i wychowania, prawomocnych dla danej pozycji społecznej dyspozycji, wpływających na styl życia, legły u podstaw zainteresowań wielu badaczy, koncentrujących uwagę na wybranym spektrum stylów życia czy form kapitału kulturowego (Leguina, Karademir-Hazir, Azpitarte 2022;Notten, Kraaykamp, Konig 2012), z którym niekiedy styl życia bywa utożsamiany (Mohr, DiMaggio 1996;Domański et al 2022;Kallunki, Purhonen 2017). Alice Sullivan (2011) twierdzi, że kapitał kulturowy określa aspekty stylu życia zaangażowane w reprodukcję społeczną, Gerbert Kraaykamp i Paul Nieuwbeerta (2000) podkreślają znaczenie kapitału kulturowego dla różnicowania wzorów stylu życia.…”