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Koen van Eijck currently works at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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We have studied the operation of the male gaze in the aesthetic evaluation of contemporary artistic photographs containing explicit male and female nudity among heterosexual men and women. Apart from explicit evaluations, we also tracked the time it takes respondents to express their opinion as an indicator of cognitive deliberation, to see to what...
Psychedelic microdosing, or taking small doses of psychedelic substances that do not induce intoxication or altered states but rather subtle outcomes such as increased focus, has quickly become a mass media phenomenon. Many claim microdosing has become the new secret to enhancement in work contexts. Drawing from literature on psychedelic microdosin...
The last few decades have seen a surge in the consumption of locally produced popular music in the West. Domestic music – music made by national artists and sung in the national language – has gained increasing popularity, specifically within the lower to middle-class segments of the native population. This article uses the Dutch music genre levens...
At the occasion of the 25 anniversary of the Dutch Cultural Policy Act, Dutch academics in cultural policy research have compiled a volume to commemorate the quarter century in which Dutch cultural policy has developed and analyse the key debates in Dutch cultural policy for the coming years. Historically, central public authority in the Netherland...
Notitie over cultuurparticipatie geschreven in opdracht van het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur & Wetenschap.
When existing cultural boundaries seem to blur, people will look for alternative ways to express their identities. Recent research has shown that aesthetic dispositions (how one consumes culture) may be more significant than taste preferences (what is consumed). Sociologists therefore wonder whether distinction might be going underground. Elaborati...
The chapter discusses Max Weber’s theories on leisure, how his ideas have affected contemporary leisure studies, and how his insights could inform future research. We focus on three aspects of Weber’s rich sociological legacy: (1) the Protestant Ethic and the absence of leisure, focusing on the relationship between religion and consumption, (2) bur...
Social inequality in cultural lifestyles can be understood using cultural capital theory or status theory. Empirical studies cannot easily produce results that allow for a proper comparison of the merits of these theories. In addition, the central role of habitus in both theories is problematic from a theoretical perspective, as relations between h...
How can symbolic boundaries in cultural consumption be simultaneously crossed and maintained by those with high levels of cultural capital engaging with low status culture? We propose that irony, due to its inherent ambiguity and detachment, is a consumption style that allows its users to simultaneously cross and uphold symbolic boundaries. In this...
In binnen-en buitenland klinkt regelmatig de vraag naar de waarde van cultuur. Het antwoord wordt daarbij steeds vaker gezocht in de sociale en economische effecten van cultuur. Ook in het cultuurbeleid zijn deze effecten centraler komen te staan en krijgt de culturele sector nieuwe doelen opgelegd. In deze verkenning pleit de Wetenschappelijke Raa...
In een tijd waarin culturele scheidslijnen lijken te vervagen, zullen mensen naar alternatieve manieren zoeken om uitdrukking te geven aan hun identiteit. Eerder onderzoek heeft al laten zien dat esthetische disposities (hoe men cultuur consumeert) wellicht veelzeggender zijn dan concrete smaakvoorkeuren of cultureel gedrag (wat men consumeert). Re...
De culturele sector is in transitie. Culturele praktijken veranderen door digitalisering. Participatie laat na een aanvankelijke stijging een daling zien, ondanks grotere capaciteit en concurrentiekracht. Statistieken
winnen aan zeggingskracht als ze in een onderlinge samenhang kunnen worden gepresenteerd en vergeleken. Met de Cultuurindex Nederlan...
Cultural consumption and the habitus: The role of knowledge and aesthetic dispositions.
The habitus is a crucial concept in Bourdieus theory of taste. In this article, we assess the relations between cultural taste or participation and two measured elements of habitus: aesthetic dispositions and domain-specific knowledge. To his end, we have analyz...
In order to assess the extent to which contemporary cultural lifestyles reflect a culture of distinction or a culture of openness, this study maps the structure of cultural lifestyles in Flanders, Belgium. Information on a broad range of cultural behaviors (participation) and dispositions (what is important in cultural activities) from 2849 respond...
In this study, visual arts preferences are analysed in a manner that contributes to the field in two ways. First, we include
characteristics of respondents that differentiate not so much vertically between those with highbrow versus lowbrow taste
(as do, e.g. education and age), but between people with a more traditional versus a more modern taste....
In this article we apply Multiple Correspondence Analysis to map the social structuring of cultural lifestyles in Flanders. Using survey data on cultural practices and dispositions of 2,849 people representative for the Flemish population, we are able to distinguish three underlying structuring dimensions: engagement versus disengagement, highbrow...
Empirical studies on cultural capital have never fully operationalized the concept using indicators of all three states distinguished by Bourdieu i e, institutionalized, embodied and objectified cultural capital We provide such a threefold measurement for both respondents and their parents in our analysis of the intergenerational transmission of cu...
This paper offers an overview of the state of affairs in sociological research into vertical lifestyle differentiation. Two main explanations for the relation between social stratification and lifestyles, i.e., information processing and status seeking, are investigated. Both theories contribute to understanding lifestyle differentiation, but they...
Cultural participation in all its forms is embedded in everyday life. To develop a deeper understanding of people's cultural behavior, we link cultural consumption patterns to 1) the way in which people apply aesthetic standards to everyday-life domains; 2) the criteria people use when evaluating cultural products; and 3) the subjects on which they...
In this paper we use Multiple Correspondence Analysis to investigate to what extent cultural behaviour is socially structured and what dimensions are relevant when describing the social space in Flanders. Using a sample of 2,849 respondents from Flanders (Belgium), analyzing 63 variables on several cultural domains - including behaviour, taste and...
Introduction Cultural consumption in present-day highly industrialised societies is a leisure activity with a distinct social base. People's tastes and lifestyles are not pre-given and do not develop in a vacuum. Socialisation, starting in the family of origin, strongly stamps cultural preferences and activities (Bourdieu, 1984). Later on, the scho...
The appreciation of nine distinct visual art styles was assessed by presenting color plates to some 3000 Flemish respondents. We set out to study the relation between vertical cultural boundary crossing, or omnivorousness, and horizontal boundary crossing, i.e., a preference for both classical and modern works within the domain of legitimate visual...
Summary The intergenerational reproduction of cultural capital in its embodied, institutionalized, and objectified states According to Bourdieu, cultural capital manifests itself in three states: the institutionalized state, the embodied state, and the objectified state. Empirical research using the notion of cultural capital has never operationali...
The relation between leisure activities and social capital is examined in this paper. The focus is on two dimensions: the company in which the activities were performed (household members versus friends and acquaintances) and the nature of the activities (productive versus consumptive). Data are employed from a time-use survey conducted in the Unit...
This article attempts to move the discussion about the cultural omnivore ahead in two ways. Firstly, different types of omnivores will be discerned. To this end, we use a well-known division of the cultural field into three distinct cultural schemes: highbrow, pop, and folk. Seeing omnivorousness as an engagement in elements from at least two of th...
This paper introduces the special issue on models of omnivorous cultural consumption. What do omnivores look like when examined from up close, using qualitative, disaggregated, or alternative quantitative approaches? The papers suggest that omnivorousness is more complex than previously thought. Among their main conclusions, they show that omnivoro...
In this article, we estimated the impact of respondents’ and partners’ status on media use, employing four waves of the Family Survey Dutch Population spanning the 1992–2003 period (n=5600). Media use was measured by literary book reading, popular book reading, and television watching. Although these types of cultural behavior are typically underta...
In this article, two possible explanations for the disproportionate aging of volunteers are tested using the Dutch Time Budget Studies 1985–2000. The first explanation holds that increasing time pressure among, especially, couples aged between 25 and 55, keeps this group from participating. This could not be corroborated by the data, as voluntary w...
Ever since the work of Bourdieu, taste patterns have been divided into more culturally oriented preferences on one hand, and economically or materially oriented patterns on the other hand. Several scholars believe that this distinction is blurring; if “anything goes”, why would postmodern consumers care about the historical incompatibility of these...
In the Netherlands, we are witnessing a process of cultural divergence between generations. While the older generations have extended their participation in traditional highbrow culture, the younger generations increasingly focus on popular culture. Using cross-sectional data covering the 1983-1999 period, four potential explanations for this trend...
In this paper, the impact of the Big Five personality factors (extraversion, friendliness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness) on media preferences (TV programs) and cultural participation (book reading and attending museums and concerts) was examined. The analyses were carried out using the Family Surveys of the Dutch Population...
In this study, a number of hypotheses on the changing effects of social background on cultural consumption and other leisure activities were tested. Based on notions regarding the waning of traditional cultural hierarchies, a decrease in the effects of age, gender, education, income, religion, and political party preference on popular cultural acti...
This article assesses differentiation in leisure patterns within the upper middle class based on job sector (i.e., civil servant, private sector employee, or self-employed). Combining three Dutch data sets covering the 1990–2000 period (n = 3415), significant job sector differences were found for 47 of the 98 leisure items studied. The results demo...
Data from the 2000 Time Use Survey (TUS; n=1819) are used to analyze the composition of media repertoires of the Dutch population. Bourdieu's theory of taste would predict that a repertoire is internally consistent in terms of status: in the repertory of high status groups, highbrow is coupled with highbrow (NYT with PBS) while in low status groups...
Data from the 2000 Time Use Survey (TUS; n=1813) are used to analyze the composition of media repertoires of the Dutch population, with particular reference to the Internet. Based on an entire media supply of 19 items, factor analysis identified eight factors underlying the repertoires. Multiple regression analysis confirmed that the eight repertoi...
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In this article, we investigate patterns of musical taste using a large sample from the Dutch population. It is found that
members from higher-status groups tend to be more omnivorous (that is, they like more different musical genres) than those
from lower-status groups, which is in line with Petersons (1992; Peterson & Simkus 1992) hypothesis. The...
This article discusses the work of Richard A. Peterson in the field of cultural consumption. Peterson studied patterns of cultural choice and coined the term ‘cultural omnivore’, which has become part of the standard vocabulary of cultural scholars. After a brief overview of the current state of the art, and Peterson's contribution to it, the autho...
Data from the 1975 and 1995 Dutch surveys were used to analyze the relationship between television viewing and reading behavior and the changes in this relationship over time. The central question of the article is, How do specific reader types differ in their television viewing behavior? This question is answered by using latent class analysis to...
In this paper, we will report on our study of how social mobility affects patterns of cultural consumption. The main questions concern the extent to which social mobility leads to more heterogenous consumption patterns within status groups, and the manner in which the consumption of culture, both popular and highbrow, is shaped by the joint impact...
In this paper, the author uses sibling models to estimate the total impact of family background on cultural consumption. Sibling analysis allows one to incorporate the impact of unmeasured family background into the models. Taking total family background into account also makes it possible to explore whether there is so-called family bias in intra-...
Over the last twenty years, museum attendance has grown steadily. Increasingly, participation rates are being viewed as indicators of the success and legitimacy of policy in a given field of culture. Consequently, museums have become more interested in gaining insight into factors that affect museum attendance. This paper focuses on variables that...
In this article we examine the impact of family structure on educational attainment in Hungary. Using a data-set collected in 1983 with information on all siblings of 17146 primary respondents, the effects of family size, birth order, and spacing were investigated. Hypotheses on these effects were based on sibling resource-dilution theory, which wa...
According to Bourdieu, cultural capital manifests itself in three states: the institutionalized state, the embodied state, and the objectified state. Empirical research using the notion of cultural capital has never operationalized the concept fully, i.e., using indicators of all three states. We provide such a threefold measurement of cultural cap...
The impact of personality traits on educational attainment This article investigates the effects of the Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness) on educational attainment in the Netherlands, using data from the 1998 Family Survey Dutch Population (N=1860 men and women with compl...
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www.cultsense.com
CultSense aims to address the issues of increased mobility pressures, and tensions and conflicts between locals and travellers.
We believe that education plays a major role in addressing the challenges of mobility which are also related to citizenship. By sensitizing young travellers to local cultures, the project contributes to better quality of life for locals, more meaningful experiences for travellers.
The partnership is composed by the following organisations: Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (lead partner); University of Girona, Spain; NOVIA University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania; together with associated partners WYSE Travel Confederation and the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education.
Co-Funded by Erasmus+, 2020-1-NL01-KA203-064791
