The best of both worlds: One-up assimilation strategies among middle-class immigrants

Tatum, Katharine; Browne, Irene

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2018.08.002

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“…The original articles focused on the intersectionality of gender and class stratification in relation to cultural voraciousness, but since that time, wide-ranging research in both consumer studies and consumer culture research have identified voracious cultural consumption as an important marker of status among different social groups. For example, studies have shown that a pattern of voracious cultural consumption is seen by consumers as a vehicle to shape a trajectory of upward mobility (Erel, 2012), to transfer legitimate cultural capital to immigrant children (Tatum and Browne, 2019), or to shape a distinctive urban identity (Cutts and Widdop, 2017;Hanquinet et al, 2012). We revisit voracious cultural consumption as a key characteristic of cultural stratification, documenting change in the way it is distributed in UK society over the period between 1998 (the date of the time use diary survey that the original papers were based upon) and 2015, the date of the most recent nationally-representative time use diary survey in the UK.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concept of cultural voraciousness and its particular emphasis on the degree of engagement in cultural practices has been shown in recent research to be useful for analysing various aspects of the association between culture and stratification. Cultural capital accrued through cultural participation is theorised to reproduce the privileged position of the middle and upper classes and to be transposable into economic and social advantages (Bennett et al, 2009; Bourdieu, 1984; Gunn, 2005; Tatum and Browne, 2019; Yuksek et al, 2019). However, the question of how gender affects cultural participation has generally taken the back seat in research on inequalities in cultural stratification (Christin, 2012).…”

Section: Cultural Capital and The Intersection Of Gender Class And Timementioning

confidence: 99%

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Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness

Katz‐Gerro

Sullivan

2022

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This paper adds to the literature on cultural stratification by revisiting cultural voraciousness, nearly two decades after it was first introduced as a measure of cultural participation designed to capture inequalities in the pace and variety of cultural activities. Specifically, using the UK 2014–15 Time Use Survey, we compare measures of cultural voraciousness in the UK in 1998 and 2015, focussing in particular on the way cultural voraciousness is associated with both gender and class. We find continuity over time in the patterns of relationship between cultural voraciousness, gender and class, which are not explained by income or hours worked. While women at the bottom of the class scale are still the most disadvantaged in terms of unequal access to cultural participation, high level managerial women now equal equivalent men in their voracious cultural participation. We conclude that not only is cultural voraciousness still useful in depicting cultural inequalities delineated by gender and class, and not only do gender and class gaps in cultural voraciousness persist over time, but also that there is evidence for accentuated class inequality over time in cultural voraciousness among men and among women.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Cultural Capital and The Intersection Of Gender Class And Timementioning

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Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness

Katz‐Gerro

Sullivan

2022

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…Lacy (2004, 2007) finds that middle class African Americans view Black spaces as valuable sites for socialization, even if they live in a predominantly White neighborhood. Banks (2019) finds a similar process at work regarding Black donations to African American museums, as does Karam (2019) in terms of Muslim Americans and their parenting practices and Tatum and Browne (2019) vis‐à‐vis Dominican immigrants and their consumption patterns. Furthermore, different ethnoracial groups may hold different reference groups for what is considered high status.…”

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Constructing the Racial Hierarchy of Labor: The Role of Race in Occupational Prestige Judgments*

Valentino

2021

Sociological Inquiry

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Sociologists of culture are interested in processes of valuation, such as the way we value the division of labor. Typically measured through occupational prestige, prior research on this topic has largely neglected the potential role of race in the construction of the status hierarchy. This study asks whether and how race shapes judgments of occupational prestige, drawing on key insights from the sociology of race and ethnicity (Whiteness as a credential, strategic assimilation) to test key predictions about racial composition and a person's own racial identity in this process. Combining data from the 2012 General Social Survey with federal administrative data, I find that Whiter jobs are, in fact, seen as more prestigious, even after taking into account an occupation's level of required education/training, pay, industry, and gender composition. Further analyses demonstrate that this pattern is primarily driven by White and Asian raters and by raters with a college degree. Overall, then, this study indicates that the racial segregation of occupations impacts not only wages but also the status they confer to their incumbents.

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“…In more peripheral fields, a stint in a fashion capital is an important rite of passage. Learning “bicultural fluency” [Tatum and Browne 2019] is an established part of fashion curricula. The dean of the Warsaw Fashion Academy explained that “… fashion is international.…”

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Structure, Strategy and Self in Cultural Peripheries: Theorizing the Periphery in the Polish and Dutch Fashion Fields

Kuipers

Holla²,

Laan

2022

Arch. eur. sociol.

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This article analyzes the creation of value in (semi-)peripheral fields, using interview (N=94) and ethnographic data of creatives, models and cultural intermediaries in Polish and Dutch fashion. Drawing on field theory and center-periphery theories we show that these peripheral fields have a distinct structure—peripheral worlds—marked by the dependence on foreign centers for goods, standards and consecration, in which actors employ field-specific peripheral strategies for pursuing value and success. Workers in the (semi-)periphery develop peripheral selves, marked by a “double consciousness”, simultaneously seeing themselves from a local perspective and through the eyes of “central” others. We theorize “peripheralness” as a dimension of social inequality, a continuum ranging from “most central” to “most peripheral”, that spring from transnational interdependencies; and offer building blocks for a theory of the periphery that connects structural conditions and personal experiences. This theory explains, among others, why peripheries are not the reverse of centers, why centers also need peripheries (though not as much as peripheries need centers), and why peripheral and semi-peripheral actors don’t leave for cultural hubs to “make it there”.

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The best of both worlds: One-up assimilation strategies among middle-class immigrants

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness

Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness

Constructing the Racial Hierarchy of Labor: The Role of Race in Occupational Prestige Judgments*

Structure, Strategy and Self in Cultural Peripheries: Theorizing the Periphery in the Polish and Dutch Fashion Fields

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