Suomalainen kulttuuriosallistuminen ja eriarvoisuus: ei-osallistujien jäljillä

Abstract


 
 
 Finnish society is often considered culturally homogeneous, and an aura of middle-class spirit is claimed to label the Finns’ cultural taste and cultural participation. However, it is a well-demonstrated fact that both are intrinsically linked to structural factors like income and social status. The aim of this article is to figure out how Finnish cultural non-participation patterns are distributed in the population and to explore how the leisure time of the non-participants of (highbrow) culture is constructed. Data, a nationally representative survey (n=1388) and household follow-up interviews conducted with its participants (n=28) will be drawn from the research project. The article shows that there are indeed socially motivated differences in cultural participation practices but that cultural non-participation is not necessarily linked to passivity in other spheres of life.
 
 

The slippery slope of cultural non-participation: Orientations of participation among the potentially passive

“…At the same time, they are a large and relatively heterogeneous group (Chan and Goldthorpe, 2007b; Gayo, 2017). Earlier (Heikkilä, 2017), I have found that cultural non-participation can entail resentment and hostility toward the established order and its accredited lifestyles altogether: in this sense, my research could reveal underlying symbolic struggles of culturally non-active popular classes, totally disregarded by Bourdieu (1984) and still not discussed enough in contemporary sociology. While we know that cultural non-participation tends to be linked to certain recurrent factors such as low education and low class position, it can be expected that on the individual level there are different orientations of participation or non-participation.…”

Mäkitornin merkkaama maaseutumaisema – eletty tila ja menneen mielikuva

“…(Yli Jokipii 1996;Muranen 2011. ) Suomalaisessa maaseudun kylämaisemassa korostetaan luonnon moni muotoisuutta, maatalouden tuotantomaisemaa, talonpoikaista arkkiteh tuuria ja maiseman historiallisiin piirteisiin liittyviä arvoja (Luostarinen & YliViikari 1997;Raivo 1999, 84;Heikkilä 2000). Maaseudun elinkei norakenteen muutos, viljelyekosysteemien köyhtyminen ja rakennus kannan muutokset herättivät niin ympäristöhallinnon kuin kotiseutu aktiivit jo 1980luvulla toimiin perinteiseksi mielletyn maaseutumai seman muutoksen hallitsemiseksi.…”

Matkailun affektiivisuus 2010-luvun suomalaisessa populaarimusiikissa

“…Keskiluokkaisen kulutuskulttuurin normiston (esim. Heikkilä, 2016) hylkäävälle kertojalle on "ihan sama onks se hanhenmaksaa vai makkaraa", Lidlin kaljaa vai shampanjaa.…”