Gender and highbrow cultural participation in Europe: The effect of societal gender equality and development

Lagaert, Susan; Roose, Henk

doi:10.1177/0020715217753271

Cited by 12 publications

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“…A substantial body of subsequent research, using a wide range of research methods, has found similar findings in a number of different countries (e.g. Bennett et al, 2009;Lena, 2019), and via cross-national comparisons (Falk & Falk, 2011;Falk et al, 2016;Katz-Gerro, 2017;Lagaert et al, 2018;Reeves, 2019;Van Hek & Kraaykamp, 2013). Extensive, often highly-technical, academic debates have taken place since the first edition of Distinction regarding whether and how Bourdieusian theories can be tested.…”

Section: Understanding the Stratification Of Cultural Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Cultural Consumption and Covid-19: Evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys

FEDER¹,

McAndrew²,

O’Brien³

et al. 2021

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How did cultural consumption change during the Covid-19 pandemic? Whilst the impact of the pandemic on cultural production has been given significant attention, work on consumption has seen less attention (Roberts 2020 on leisure time notwithstanding). This paper addresses this gap in the literature by presenting a comparative analysis of two, nationally representative, surveys of cultural activity in England. The analysis demonstrates that, when cultural consumption moved online and to digital modes of delivery and engagement as a result of the pandemic, there was no discernible transformation in the stratification of cultural participation in England. The majority of the population, characterised by the absence of participation in formal, and often state-funded, cultural forms, saw no change to their patterns of engagement. Where cultural consumption did increase, this was among the small minority of people who were already highly engaged. This minority maps closely onto pre-existing inequalities identified by existing research on cultural consumption, in England and beyond. For cultural consumption and the stratification of taste, it seems that the ‘new normal’ of pandemic life was much like the ‘old normal’ of an art and cultural audience characterised by significant inequality.

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Section: Understanding the Stratification Of Cultural Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Cultural Consumption and Covid-19: Evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys

FEDER¹,

McAndrew²,

O’Brien³

et al. 2021

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“…This largely echoes the findings of Falk and Katz-Gerro (2016) who showed, in the light of crossnational data, that gender (along with age) has much weaker effects on cultural participation than for instance education. It could also be a possibility that in an egalitarian context such as Finland the decreasing gender gap reflects the suggestion that gender-equal countries would show higher numbers of both men and women participating in culture due to higher rates of more equally shared housework and childcare (Lagaert and Roose, 2018).…”

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Overlaps and accumulations: The anatomy of cultural non-participation in Finland, 2007 to 2018

Heikkilä

Lindblom

2022

Journal of Consumer Culture

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There is a fervent belief that culture is, among other desirable ideals, “good for you.” This has been the baseline of the cultural policies in many countries. Through cultural policies, some forms of cultural participation over others are subvented through public funding, which makes it yet more important to ask which groups intentionally withdraw—or are left out—from which forms of it. We address the debate on cultural non-participation by scrutinizing nationally representative and longitudinal survey data from Finland, a Nordic welfare country with allegedly low social and cultural hierarchies, for years 2007 and 2018. We explore the changes in cultural non-participation by asking whether the main frequencies of cultural non-participation have changed between 2007 and 2018, what forms of different cultural non-participation patterns can be distinguished, and which socioeconomic factors best predict which form of cultural non-participation most in both years. Finally, we ask whether certain everyday forms of participation would compensate or complement non-existing cultural participation. We find three main cultural non-participation patterns: highbrow avoidance, mainstream avoidance, and nightlife avoidance. While the changes in non-participation look small from the macro level, their internal dynamics face a steep change between 2007 and 2018. Especially higher education becomes a continuously more significant factor for any kind of cultural activity. We also show that cultural participation is not compensated by everyday activities as often claimed in the literature, but that cultural and everyday non-participation overlap. Our results indicate that the alleged egalitarianism in Finland does not reach cultural participation: avoiding most forms of participation is more and more related to socio-economic differences reflecting social and cultural hierarchies.

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“…Eurobarometer surveys are public opinion surveys conducted by the European Commission twice a year since 1973, on a variety of topics. Leong and Ward, 2006;Lagaert and Roose, 2018). In their design, efforts are made to ensure representativeness through criteria such as sex, age or location.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, Eurobarometer data have been regularly used for scientific publications on a range of topics, including on gender and diversity (e.g. Leong and Ward, 2006;Lagaert and Roose, 2018).…”

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The Perils of Gender Beliefs for Men Leaders as Change Agents for Gender Equality

Humbert

Kelan

Brink

2018

European Management Review

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This article examines the potentially damaging role that gender beliefs can play in hindering women's equal representation in leadership positions. Based on a secondary analysis of a large‐scale EU‐wide survey (Eurobarometer 76.1), the article shows that essentialist gender beliefs lower support for equality interventions such as quotas or targets, particularly among men as leaders. The results show that discriminatory gender beliefs partially mediate this relationship and produce a more negative effect among men leaders. The paper contributes to understanding the role essentialist gender beliefs often lay the groundwork for gender discriminatory beliefs. Those in turn hinder support for effective gender equality measures. Gender essentialist beliefs can be held by everyone but are more prevalent among men leaders. We conclude that greater gender balance in leadership cannot be achieved without tackling underlying gender beliefs, particularly among men leaders since they are called upon to enact change. We thereby argue that simply asking for men to become change agents for gender equality is not an effective strategy if underlying gender beliefs are left unchallenged.

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Gender and highbrow cultural participation in Europe: The effect of societal gender equality and development

Cited by 12 publications

References 71 publications

Cultural Consumption and Covid-19: Evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys

Cultural Consumption and Covid-19: Evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys

Overlaps and accumulations: The anatomy of cultural non-participation in Finland, 2007 to 2018

The Perils of Gender Beliefs for Men Leaders as Change Agents for Gender Equality

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