This book uses a rich data set, from individuals whose background profiles statistically predict strong cultural non-participation, to explore the most salient lifestyles and symbolic boundaries drawn in these potentially disengaged groups.The book departs from a theoretical framework in which cultural practices and cultural participation in their most visible and tangible form are seen as manifestations of cultural capital and power, to show empirically that people and groups dubbed passive in many policy documents and scholarly research are actually relatively active, both in terms of traditional cultural participation and different kinds of social and anthropological understandings of participation.
Author(s): Riie Heikkilä
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Participation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 165
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Part I: Situating the Research
Chapter 1: Introduction
Theoretical and Methodological Starting Points
Aims and Definitions
Mapping the Context
The Design of This Book
References
Chapter 2: Contextualising Cultural Participation
Cultural Participation as a Positional Good
Cultures of the Underprivileged Classes: A Moral Turn?
Cultural Policy as a Tool for Legitimising Certain Forms of Cultural Participation
Conclusion: Cultural Participation as a Question of ‘Deservingness’
References
Chapter 3: What Do We Know About Cultural Participation and Non-participation?
The Intrinsic Link Between Social Position and Cultural Participation
The Multiple Definitions of Cultural Participation and Non-participation
Everyday Participation
Conclusion: Towards a More Sensitive Way of Studying Cultural Participation
References
Chapter 4: Defining the Research Object
On Studying Cultural Non-participation Among Underprivileged Groups
Problems and Challenges in Interviews
Research Design and Data
Conclusion: Why Interviews?
References
Part II: Cultural Milieus of the “Potentially Passive”
Chapter 5: Affirmation
Prologue
More Active than the Middle Classes?
Specialisations
Getting There: Cultural Goodwill
Cautious Downward Boundaries
Conclusion: Everyday Cultural Goodwill?
References
Chapter 6: Functionality
Prologue
Escapes from Reality
Practicality
Openness and Tolerance
Modesty
Conclusion: A Lack of Boundaries?
References
Chapter 7: Resistance
Prologue
A Different ‘Everyday Participation’
An Unknown Territory
Hostility: Aesthetical Upward Boundaries
A Quest for Equality: Moral Upward Boundaries
Conclusion: Resisting Hegemonic Tastes and Lifestyles
References
Part III: Paving the Way for Future Debates
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Main Findings
The Problematic Role of Cultural Policy in Subverting Existing Hierarchies
Limitations
Understanding Cultural Non-participation
References
Appendices
Sampling and Data Collection Procedure
The Interviewees
The Individual Interviewees
The Focus Groups
Interview Guidelines
