Multiple Paths to the Opera? The Social Structure of Decision Processes in Cultural Consumption

Weingartner, Sebastian

doi:10.1007/s11577-019-00593-y

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“…Over time, consumption decisions based on general orientations and symbolic fit become habitualized. The lifestyle then serves as a script for everyday behavior, reducing the cognitive effort for consumption choices [25,50]. As a result, at least for some consumers, it becomes self-evident and "natural" to buy fair trade products because it is a part of their day-to-day routines.…”

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It’s All about Distinction: The Lifestyle Embeddedness of Fair Trade Consumption

2021

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Social scientists have argued that ethical consumption is embedded into broader lifestyles running across various domains of social life. For instance, fair trade consumption might be part of a distinctive lifestyle, including behaviors such as going to fancy restaurants or the opera. We, therefore, investigate the relationships of the main dimensions of broader lifestyles to various aspects of fair trade consumption—from purchase frequency, to visiting specialized stores, to the identification with fair trade. The analysis relies on data collected in the Summer of 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland. Since per capita consumption of fair trade products in this country was on a comparatively high level, the results are also important for other societies experiencing only currently the mainstreaming of fair trade. The first dimension, distinctiveness of lifestyles, denoting orientations and behaviors with high social prestige in society, emerges as a substantial and important determinant of all included aspects of fair trade consumption. The second dimension, modernity, is only correlated with a subset of these aspects. These effects are robust, even when taking ethical and political orientations and resource endowment into account. Hence, differences between lifestyle groups do not simply reflect the social position of high-status consumers or their ethical and political views. They reflect orientations, mental representations and routines specific to these social groups. Broader lifestyles are, therefore, a relevant addition to explanations of fair trade consumption.

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It’s All about Distinction: The Lifestyle Embeddedness of Fair Trade Consumption

2021

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Did Lockdowns Stimulate Digital Cultural Participation? Mapping the Post-pandemic Berlin Classical Concert Audience and Its Adoption of Audiovisual Concert Streams

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Weinzierl

2023

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Skewed distributions of scientists’ productivity: a research program for the empirical analysis

Bornmann

2024

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Only a few scientists are able to publish a substantial number of papers every year; most of the scientists have an output of only a few publications or no publications at all. Several theories (e.g., the “sacred spark” theory) have been proposed in the past to explain these productivity differences that are complementary and focus on different aspects in the publication process. This study is intended to introduce a research program for studying productivity differences in science (skewed distributions of scientists’ productivity). The program is based on the Anna Karenina Principle (AKP). The AKP states that success in research is the result of several prerequisites that are multiplicatively related. Great success results from prerequisites that must be all given. If at least one prerequisite is not given, failure follows, whereby the failure is specific to the set of given and missing prerequisites. High productivity is given for the few scientists who fulfill all prerequisites (e.g., high motivation, pronounced creativity, reputational professional position, early important papers in high-impact journals), and low productivity is connected to a specific combination of missing and fulfilled prerequisites for many scientists. Besides the AKP as theoretical principle, the program for studying productivity differences includes a mathematical concept explaining skewed distributions and statistical methods for empirical productivity analyses.

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Multiple Paths to the Opera? The Social Structure of Decision Processes in Cultural Consumption

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

It’s All about Distinction: The Lifestyle Embeddedness of Fair Trade Consumption

It’s All about Distinction: The Lifestyle Embeddedness of Fair Trade Consumption

Did Lockdowns Stimulate Digital Cultural Participation? Mapping the Post-pandemic Berlin Classical Concert Audience and Its Adoption of Audiovisual Concert Streams

Skewed distributions of scientists’ productivity: a research program for the empirical analysis

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