Title: Social and National Determinants of Cultural Inequalities in Europe
Abstract: While studies of cultural practices focus mostly on national spaces, this article aims at extending the analysis to the European level. Using the EU-SILC survey, it shoes that income, educational attainment and gender provide a first set of key variables explaining leisure practices such as the frequentation of theaters, cultural sites, movie theaters and sport events. Using a homogenized and detailed social classification, the authors show that the socio-professional position of the individuals surveyed also is also decisive in establishing the profile of intense consumers of cultural goods. If one except teaching, artistic and intellectual professions as well as unskilled workers, inequalities between countries seem more important than inequalities between social classes. This result is partly explained by the fact that the economy of cultural goods remains tightly wedded to national determinations, but also because it stems from social structures that today remain quite different.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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