Open AccessSuomalainen kulttuuriosallistuminen ja eriarvoisuus: ei-osallistujien jäljillä
Author(s) -
Riie Heikkilä
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
kulttuuripolitiikan tutkimuksen vuosikirja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2343-290X
DOI - 10.17409/kpt.60095
Subject(s) - highbrow , taste , sociology , sociology of culture , social psychology , middle class , psychology , homogeneous , gender studies , social science , political science , law , physics , literature , neuroscience , thermodynamics , art
Finnish society is often considered culturally homogeneous, and an aura of middle-class spirit is claimed to label the Finns’ cultural taste and cultural participation. However, it is a well-demonstrated fact that both are intrinsically linked to structural factors like income and social status. The aim of this article is to figure out how Finnish cultural non-participation patterns are distributed in the population and to explore how the leisure time of the non-participants of (highbrow) culture is constructed. Data, a nationally representative survey (n=1388) and household follow-up interviews conducted with its participants (n=28) will be drawn from the research project. The article shows that there are indeed socially motivated differences in cultural participation practices but that cultural non-participation is not necessarily linked to passivity in other spheres of life.