Cover 1
Half-title 3
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 9
Figures 11
Tables 13
Acknowledgments 17
1 Social status and cultural consumption 19
1.1 Previous research and theoretical argument 20
1.2 The treatment of social stratification: class and status 28
1.3 Further methodological issues 33
1.3.1 Data 33
1.3.2 Analysis 37
1.3.3 Comparative strategy 39
1.4 The national chapters 41
2 The social status scale: its construction and properties 46
2.1 Estimating the status order 46
2.1.1 Marriage vs. friendship data 48
2.1.2 The status scale in the six countries 50
2.2 Further properties of the status scales 59
2.2.1 Is the status order common to all sub-populations? 59
2.2.2 Status, education, income and SEI 61
2.2.3 Status and class 65
2.3 Social status and other occupational scales 67
2.3.1 SIOPS and Hope--Goldthorpe scale 69
2.3.2 International Socio-Economic Index 71
2.3.3 Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification scale 71
2.4 Summary 73
3 Social stratification and musical consumption: highbrow\u2013middlebrow in the United States 75
3.1 Introduction 75
3.2 Styles of highbrow--middlebrow musical consumption 78
3.3 Social stratification and musical consumption 88
3.4 Discussion and conclusions 98
4 Bourdieu\u2019s legacy and the class\u2013status debate on cultural consumption: musical consumption in contemporary France 102
4.1 Perspectives on the social stratification of cultural and music listening habits 102
4.1.1 Homology and habitus 103
4.1.2 The meaning of the omnivore--univore thesis 104
4.1.3 The class--status debate 105
4.1.4 The French context 106
4.2 Data and methodology 107
4.2.1 The population under consideration 107
4.2.2 Musical consumption or musical taste 108
4.3 Results 109
4.3.1 Basic features of the distribution of musical taste 109
4.3.2 Types of musical listeners 111
4.3.3 Characteristics of the four types of listener 114
4.4 Multivariate analysis 119
4.4.1 Age, gender and area of residence 119
4.4.2 Class, social status, education and income 120
4.5 Possible mechanisms 121
4.5.1 The impact of age on musical tastes 121
4.5.2 Why education fosters omnivorousness 122
4.5.3 How to explain that income matters 123
4.5.4 Status effects 123
4.6 Conclusion 124
5 Social status and public cultural consumption: Chile in comparative perspective 127
5.1 Introduction 127
5.2 The Chilean context 129
5.3 Hypotheses, data, variables and methods 132
5.4 Analysis 134
5.4.1 Latent class analysis of cultural consumption patterns 134
5.4.2 Bivariate analysis 140
5.4.3 Determinants of cultural consumption: multivariate analysis 142
5.5 Conclusions and discussion 152
6 Social stratification and cultural participation in Hungary: a post-communist pattern of consumption? 157
6.1 Introduction 157
6.2 In search of the social bases of cultural consumptionin Hungary 157
6.2.1 The role of cultural and economic resources 157
6.2.2 The role of social status 159
6.2.3 The role of the family of origin 161
6.3 Data and analytical strategy 161
6.4 Results 166
6.4.1 Cultural consumption by social status and social class 166
6.4.2 Multivariate analyses 170
6.4.3 The magnitude of education, income and status effects 175
6.4.4 The influence of parental status 180
6.5 Conclusions 182
7 Status, class and culture in the Netherlands 187
7.1 Introduction 187
7.2 Theoretical background 189
7.2.1 Status and class 189
7.2.2 Cultural consumption: highbrow and lowbrow 191
7.2.3 Educational attainment and cultural consumption 194
7.2.4 Partner influences and cultural consumption 195
7.3 Data and measurement 196
7.3.1 Family Survey Dutch Population 1992--2003 196
7.3.2 Measurements 197
7.4 Descriptive results 200
7.5 Results 203
7.5.1 Effects of class and status on four cultural activities 203
7.5.2 Effects of class and status on patterns of cultural consumption 215
7.6 Conclusion and discussion 219
8 Social stratification of cultural consumption across three domains: music; theatre, dance and cinema; and the visual arts 222
8.1 Introduction 222
8.2 Data and analytical strategy 228
8.3 Cross-domain cultural consumption by class and status 232
8.4 Cross-domain cultural consumption: multivariate analyses 235
8.5 Theoretical considerations 240
8.6 Conclusions 246
9 Conclusion 250
9.1 The three arguments evaluated 251
9.1.1 Individualisation arguments 251
9.1.2 Homology arguments 252
9.1.3 Omnivore--univore arguments 253
9.2 The differentiation/stratification of cultural consumption 257
9.2.1 Socio-demographic variables 257
9.2.2 Social stratification variables 259
9.3 Possible objections 260
9.3.1 Quantitative vs. qualitative data 260
9.3.2 Analytical methods 261
9.3.3 Interpretation of results 263
9.4 The significance of stratification of cultural consumption 266
9.5 Future research 268
References 270
Index 287