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Trends in the Relative Influence of Education and Income on Highbrow Taste, 1982–2012
Author(s) -
Yuksek Durmus A.,
Dumais Susan A.,
Kamo Yoshinori
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/soin.12293
Subject(s) - highbrow , taste , cultural capital , publics , the arts , capital (architecture) , sociology , cultural economics , social science , political science , psychology , law , visual arts , art , literature , neuroscience , politics
Although numerous studies have confirmed the separate effects of economic and cultural capital on arts participation, research focusing on the cumulative and interactive effects of economic and cultural capital through the creation of taste publics is limited. Using data from the United States (Survey of Public Participation in the Arts [1982–2012]), this research integrates economic and cultural capital—measured as income and education—into the analysis of taste, creates taste publics, and examines their association with highbrow arts participation over time. We find that the effects of economic and cultural capital on highbrow arts participation decreased between 1982 and 2012, and American publics seem to have converged across both types of capital. Implications of the findings are discussed.