Nordic democracy of taste? Cultural omnivorousness in musical and literary taste preferences in Finland

Purhonen, Semi; Gronow, Jukka; Rahkonen, Keijo

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2010.03.003

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“…The random sample included 3000 persons, and the survey had a final response rate of 46.3 percent, with a final sample size of 1388 respondents from the Finnish population ages 18 to 74. The final response rate is on the same level with recent mail surveys in Finland (Melkas, 2008;Purhonen et al, 2010). A non-response analysis showed that women, older men and the highly educated were slightly overrepresented in the data.…”

Section: Data Methods and Variables Used In The Analysis Datasupporting

confidence: 68%

Sport and social class: The case of Finland

Kahma

2010

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Sports have often been neglected in the research on taste and cultural consumption. This article investigates lifestyle choices in the area of sports, with particular focus on the differences that can be drawn from occupational class and other background variables. Based on nationally representative survey data from Finland, participation in sports and sports spectatorship are examined. The main findings suggest that there are divisions between the occupational classes in the involvement in sports, but also in the involvement in individual sporting activities. However, the differences are less clear in sports spectatorship. The findings are somewhat at odds with recent research from different countries suggesting that education and income are important in explaining the differences, although occupational class also counts.

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Section: Data Methods and Variables Used In The Analysis Datasupporting

confidence: 68%

Sport and social class: The case of Finland

Kahma

2010

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…unauthorised: country and western, electronic and urban, which coincide respectively with the Purhonen, Gronow and Rahkonen (2010) high, middle and lowbrow classification. In order to simplify analysis and facilitate comparison between techniques, only some of the most frequently studied sociodemographic variables in the literature were included, such as age, sex, social class and education 2 (Appendix 4).…”

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confidence: 69%

Musical Distinctions in England – Understanding Cultural Homology and Omnivourism through a Methods Comparison

Leguina

2015

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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“…We will discuss several alternatives. (1) Tepper and Hargittai (2009) measure music omnivorousness in terms of a construct of three genres-alternative and hard rock, classical and Latin-while Purhonen et al (2010) work with omnivorousness 'by volume' and 'by composition'. Our survey records the genre of the last CD purchased, but the high presence of zeros in the answers reported would seem to recommend a construct consisting of only two musical genres (popular music and classical) to work with, which we find insufficient for the measurement of a variety of musical genres.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Empirical research into cultural consumption showed significant evidence for the joint effect of gender and age, and gender and education. Purhonen et al (2010), for example, reported a significant ageing effect in favour of women in Finland, in relation to the number of music genres liked. While there was a significant increase in the number of musical genres preferred by women as they grew older, for men the age effect was not significant.…”

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confidence: 99%