Social Status and Cultural Consumption

Klappentext In this volume, leading scholars from around the world examine the social stratification of arts and culture in contemporary society. Zusammenfassung Is there any relationship between cultural hierarchy and social hierarchy or has cultural consumption become individualised to the extent that it has no social basis? This volume examines the social stratification of arts and culture! demonstrating that cultural consumption is primarily stratified by social status rather than social class. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Social status and cultural consumption Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe; 2. The social status scale: its construction and properties Tak Wing Chan; 3. Social stratification and musical consumption: highbrow-middlebrow in the United States Arthur S. Alderson, Isaac Heacock and Azamat Junisbai; 4. Bourdieu's legacy and the class-status debate on cultural consumption: musical consumption in contemporary France Philippe Coulangeon and Yannick Lemel; 5. Social status and public cultural consumption: Chile in comparative perspective Florencia Torche; 6. Social stratification and cultural participation in Hungary: a post-communist pattern of consumption? Erzsébet Bukodi; 7. Status, class, and culture in the Netherlands Gerbert Kraaykamp, Koen van Eijck and Wout Ultee; 8. Social stratification of cultural consumption across three domains: music; theatre, dance and cinema, and the visual arts Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe; 9. Conclusion Tak Wing Chan.

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• Authors: Tak Wing Chan, Tak Wing (University of Oxford) Chan
• Assisted by: Tak Wing Chan (Editor), Tak Wing (University of Oxford) Chan (Editor), Chan Tak Wing (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107406988
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40698-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social groups, communities and identities