Leisure and Consumption in Europe

Gronow, Jukka; Southerton, Dale

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-88199-7_12

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“…International comparisons corroborate these explanations. As countries become more prosperous, the proportions of income devoted to leisure tend to rise, and in all countries the better-off strata tend to spend the higher proportions of their incomes on leisure (Gronow & Southerton, 2011;Lopez, 2011).…”

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confidence: 98%

Social class and leisure during recent recessions in Britain

Roberts

2013

Leisure Studies

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This paper assembles time series data on leisure participation rates and expenditure to assess the impact of recessions in the UK during and since the 1980s, and the widening of social class disparities in income since then. It shows that in both cases there have been clear impacts on leisure spending, but to a lesser and variable extent on participation in leisure activities. The conclusions that are drawn highlight weaknesses in the data currently available to leisure scholars, specifically the limited time series and the absence of a limited number of key indicators of leisure use. An important feature of leisure itself is also highlighted: specifically the stability of participation rates over extended periods of time. The failure of leisure scholars to address this feature of their subject matter is attributed to its invisibility before time series are constructed and examined.

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Social class and leisure during recent recessions in Britain

Roberts

2013

Leisure Studies

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“…3 See, for example, Bourdieu, 1993;Hesmondhalgh, 2007;Scardaville, 2009;Throsby, 2010;Verboord, 2011;and Schmutz, 2016. 4 Long-term data on the public funding of arts that would be comparable across different national contexts is notoriously scarce, and the same goes for crossnationally comparable data on trends in arts participation over time (Madden, 2005;Schuster, 2007;Gronow and Southerton, 2010). There have been some attempts to collect and maintain comparable databases regarding both, of which the most salient to this study is the Council of Europe's (2016) web portal 'Compendium: Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe' (see also ACE, 1998;Heilbrun and Gray, 2001;Klamer et al, 2006).…”

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“…While good-quality longitudinal datasets on consumption and tastes are scarce (Gronow and Southerton, 2010), other strategies have been employed to account for the temporal dimension in the study of cultural globalization. One such stream of research has been the study of music charts (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

Purhonen¹,

Heikkilä²,

Hazır³

et al. 2018

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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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“…While the German expenditure for leisure has increased significantly over the past decades, it has been considerably stable in France. The share for eating out has decreased in both countries (Gronow and Southerton, 2010). The quality of accommodation was ranked higher for Germany than for France in a recent expatriate study with 2,155 expatriates across four continents (Farquhar, 2009).…”

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“…The share for eating out has decreased in both countries (Gronow and Southerton, 2010). The quality of accommodation was ranked higher for Germany than for France in a recent expatriate study with 2155 expatriates across four continents (Farquhar, 2009).…”

Section: Sociocultural Adjustment To the General Non-work Environmentmentioning

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Adjustment in Western European overseas assignments

Selmer

Lauring

Kittler

2015

Int Journal of Commerce & Mgt

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Purpose-Most research has focused on the individual in relation to expatriate adjustment. The general conditions of the host country, however, could represent an important contextual factor that needs to be explored further. Thus, the objective of this study is to assess differences between the adjustment of expatriates in Germany and France. Design/methodology/approach-Based on an empirical study of 130 expatriate managers on foreign assignments in France (61) and Germany (69), we take a comparative perspective and examine differences for sociocultural and psychological adjustment as well as time to proficiency in both countries. Findings-We found that expatriates assigned to France show higher degrees of work adjustment and general adjustment than those in Germany. This was unexpected as Germany is generally described as a more transparent, open and welcoming country. Results may thus challenge stereotypical conceptions of national differences and indicate that globalization processes are gradually changing country specific conditions.

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Leisure and Consumption in Europe

Cited by 11 publications

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Social class and leisure during recent recessions in Britain

Social class and leisure during recent recessions in Britain

Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

Adjustment in Western European overseas assignments

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