Parental Cultural Capital as a Determinant of Cultural Preferences of Young People

Rad polazi od koncepta kulturnoga kapitala Pierrea Bourdieua irazlikovanja utjelovljenog, objektiviranog i institucionaliziranogkulturnog kapitala, pri čemu je temeljni cilj rada ispitati povezanostkulturnih preferencija srednjoškolaca i raznih oblika kulturnogakapitala njihovih roditelja. Podaci su prikupljeni anketnimistraživanjem učenika srednjih škola u Zadarskoj županiji(N = 868) 2014. godine. Kulturne preferencije srednjoškolacaoperacionalizirane su trima dimenzijama kulturne potrošnje. Tosu: potrošnja visoke kulture, potrošnja tradicionalno-popularnekulture i potrošnja rokersko-alternativne kulture. Nalazi hijerarhijskeregresijske analize pokazuju da je roditeljski kulturni kapitalznačajan prediktor kulturnih preferencija mladih. Pritom jeutjelovljeni kulturni kapital roditelja potvrđen kao važniji prediktorod objektiviranoga i institucionaliziranoga kulturnog kapitala, ali iod ekonomskoga kapitala. U skladu s dosadašnjim nalazima,rezultati upućuju na jasno diferenciranje potrošnje visoke kulture ipopularno-zabavne kulture. S druge strane, rokersko-alternativnitip potrošnje pozitivno je povezan s izloženosti visokoj kulturi uobiteljskom okruženju, što upućuje na promjene značenjakulturnoga sadržaja.The article starts from Pierre Bourdieu\u27s concept of culturalcapital and differentiation between embodied, objectifiedand institutionalized cultural capital. The main goal of thearticle is to research the connection between culturalpreferences of high-school students and the different formsof cultural capital of their parents. Empirical data wasgathered from a survey (N = 868) carried out in 2014among high-school students in Zadar County (Croatia).Cultural preferences of high-school students wereoperationalized using three dimensions of culturalconsumption: high culture, traditional-popular and rock--alternative. The results of hierarchical regression analysisconfirmed the parental cultural capital to be an importantpredictor of high-school students\u27 cultural preferences. Inparticular, our results indicate that the parentally embodiedcultural capital is a better predictor than the objectified andinstitutionalized cultural capital or economic capital. Resultspoint to a visible distinction between two types of culturalconsumption: traditional-popular and high cultureconsumption, which is in line with previous studies. On theother hand, the rock-alternative type of cultural consumptionis positively associated with exposure to high culture in afamily environment, which indicates a change in themeaning of cultural content