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| Titel |
Comments on Chan and Goldthorpe : pitfalls in testing Bourdieu's homology assumptions using mainstream social science methodology : social stratification and cultural consumption: the visual arts in England |
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U. Wuggenig |
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In: Poetics. 35(2007)4(Aug.-Oct.306-316) |
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elitecultuur, populaire cultuur, sociale klasse, consumenten, vergelijkend onderzoek (vorm), Verenigd Koninkrijk, commentaren (vorm), tijdschriftartikelen (vorm) |
Samenvatting
Chan and Goldthorpe offer a fertile theoretical frame by constructing three hypotheses about the relationship between social structure and cultural consumption. In addition, the statistical approach chosen is sophisticated. Nevertheless, it is regrettable that the authors could only conduct secondary analysis with data of limited value, especially regarding the dependent variables. Because of the weakness of the measures employed, latent class analysis yields only two types of art consumption in England, apart from a large ''inactive'' population. This result amounts to an artefact that is due to the number and kind of available indicators: only five dichotomous measures, dealing with basic quantitative aspects of consumption. Due to these restrictions, the omnivore type of consumption (combining a preference for ''high'' art with a preference for ''low'' or low-brow art) was not convincingly operationalized. |
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