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Are art-museum visitors different from other people? The relationship between attendance and social and political attitudes in the United States☆
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The authors examined the manner in which arts participation is embedded in larger systems of meaning by investigating the associations between one kind of artistic participation (art-museum visiting) and individuals' responses to ninety-four questions about their social, cultural, and political values and attitudes.About:
This article is published in Poetics.The article was published on 1996-11-01. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cultural capital & Taste (sociology).read more
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Problems in comparative research: The example of omnivorousness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of comparative research on omnivorousness taste from its serendipitous discovery and its evolving conceptualization to questions about its passing, and point to six sources of erroneous findings that are due to artifacts introduced by the methodology.
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Arts participation as cultural capital in the United States, 1982–2002: Signs of decline?
Paul DiMaggio,Toqir Mukhtar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzed surveys of public participation in the arts for 1982, 1992, and 2002 to see if trends in U.S. arts attendance are consistent with the perception of many sociologists of culture that the role of the arts as cultural capital is in decline.
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Class and status : The conceptual distinction and its empirical relevance
Tak Wing Chan,John H. Goldthorpe +1 more
TL;DR: The authors show that economic security and prospects are stratified more by class than by status, while the opposite is true for outcomes in the domain of cultural consumption, and that class rather than status predicts Conservative versus Labour Party voting in British general elections and also Left-Right political attitudes.
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Social stratification and cultural consumption: The visual arts in England
Tak Wing Chan,John H. Goldthorpe +1 more
TL;DR: This article identified three types of consumer in the visual arts: omnivores, paucivores and non-consumers, and examined the social character of these types through a regression analysis that includes a range of demographic and stratification variables.
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A New Framework to Understand Social Class in Counseling: The Social Class Worldview Model and Modern Classism Theory.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors lay the foundation for the Social Class Worldview Model and then the Modern Classism Theory, and they also provide counseling applications and recommendations for future research.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.
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The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self
TL;DR: The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment as discussed by the authors, where the authors provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival.
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Cultural capital and school success: The impact of status-culture participation on the grades of U.S. high-school students
TL;DR: This paper found that a composite measure of cultural capital has a significant impact on grades, controlling for family background and measured ability, however, the pattern of relationships differs strikingly by gender, and it takes more than measured ability to do well in school.
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The Culture of Cities
TL;DR: In this article, the first broad treatment of the city in both its historic and its contemporary aspects is presented, and the authors offer an overview of its history and its present state.
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Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class
TL;DR: Lamont's Money, Morals, and Manners as discussed by the authors provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class, the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society.