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Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a Critical Investigation, 2003-2005

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SN: 5832
Title: Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a Critical Investigation, 2003-2005
Alternative title: CCSE
Persistent identifier: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5832-1
Depositor(s): INDIVIDUAL
Principal investigator(s): Bennett, T., University of Manchester. ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Silva, E., University of Manchester. ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Warde, A., University of Manchester. ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Savage, M., University of Manchester. ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Data collector(s): National Centre for Social Research
Sponsor(s): Economic and Social Research Council
Grant number: R000239801
Other acknowledgements: David Wright and Modesto Gayo-Cal contributed significantly to the project as Research Fellows assisting with the qualitative and statistical compounds of the project respectively. Chris Archer, Stephanie Adams, Surinder Guru, Ruth Jackson, Pippa Stevens, Karen Wells assisted with the focus group discussions and household interviews.

Subject Categories

Leisure, tourism and sport - Society and culture
Social attitudes and behaviour - Society and culture
Social indicators and quality of life - Society and culture

Abstract

This mixed method study uses focus groups, a national random survey, and follow-up household interviews to explore the relationships between cultural capital and a range of social position indicators relating to occupational class, gender, age, ethnicity, and location. The survey was also administered to an ethnic boost sample to allow exploration of these questions among the UK's three largest minority ethnic groups: the Indian, Pakistani and Afro-Caribbean.

In recent years there has been increasing interest in how cultural processes are related to social inequalities and associated forms of social exclusion. Significant social variations have been documented in participation in diverse cultural practices such as attending cinema, theatre, museums and art galleries, food consumption, television viewing and so forth. However, there have been no systematic attempts in Britain to provide a comprehensive account of the distribution of diverse cultural practices by socio-economic location, and to show how such practices are related to cultural knowledge and taste. This project was designed to explore the extent to which the concept of cultural capital derived from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and as elaborated and qualified in the subsequent literature, might provide a satisfactory account of the relations between, and relative influence of, the economic, social and cultural aspects of social exclusion in contemporary Britain. This involved the pursuit of three subsidiary aims concerning (i) the nature of cultural capital, focusing on the relationship between cultural participation, cultural knowledge, and cultural taste; (ii) the relative weight of cultural capital in comparison with economic and social capital in accounting for differences in social and cultural participation; and (iii) the extent to which the concept of cultural capital provides an adequate theoretical basis for the development of cultural policies designed to offset and mitigate the effects of social exclusion.

Further information about the study can be found on the ESRC Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: A Critical Investigation award webpage and the project web page.
Main Topics:
A number of different cultural tastes and practices are considered such as:
  • television viewing habits and preferences
  • film preferences and cinema going
  • reading tastes and practices
  • musical tastes
  • visual art preferences
  • sport (as both participants and spectators)
  • eating out and culinary preferences
  • general recreation and leisure
In addition, a lot of demographic data and information on social attitudes are collected.

Coverage, universe, methodology

Dates of fieldwork: March 2003, January 2005
Country: United Kingdom
Spatial units: Government Office Regions
Observation units: Individuals
Kind of data: Textual
Numeric
Alpha-numeric
Universe: National
Qualitative data collection - interview selection based on serial numbers of respondents to the quantitative survey; focus groups recruited by researchers. Quantitative data collection - national random sample of individuals.
Time dimensions: Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Sampling procedures: Multi-stage stratified random sample
Follow up interviews with 29 respondents and 15 partners were conducted.
Number of units: Qualitative - 44 interviews; 25 focus groups.
Quantitative - 1,564 main sample; 265 ethnic boost sample.
Method of data collection: Face-to-face interview; Focus group
Weighting: Weighting used. See documentation for details.

Keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTACCULTURATIONAGE
ART MUSEUMSARTISTIC ACTIVITIESARTS
ATTITUDESBOOK READERSHIPBOOKS
CHILDRENCINEMA ATTENDANCECOOKING
CULTURAL ACTIVITIESCULTURAL BEHAVIOURCULTURAL CAPITAL
CULTURAL CHANGECULTURAL CONDITIONSCULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
CULTURAL IDENTITYCULTURAL INTEGRATIONCULTURAL INTERACTION
CULTURAL PARTICIPATIONCULTURAL PLURALISMCULTURAL RESEARCH
CULTURAL STUDIESCULTURAL VALUESCULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED
CULTUREDOMESTIC RESPONSIBILITIESECONOMIC ACTIVITY
EDUCATIONAL CHOICEETHNIC GROUPSEXERCISE
FATHERSFILMSFRIENDS
HOMEWORKHOUSEHOLDSHOUSING TENURE
HUMAN BEHAVIOURINTERPERSONAL RELATIONSLEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES
LISTENING TO MUSICMASS CULTUREMASS MEDIA USE
MEMBERSHIPMOTHER TONGUEMOTHERS
MUSEUMSMUSICMUSIC EDUCATION
NEWSPAPER READERSHIPOCCUPATIONSORGANIZATIONS
PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENTPENSIONSPERSONAL APPEARANCE
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIESPLACE OF BIRTHRADIO LISTENING
RADIO PROGRAMMESREADING (ACTIVITY)RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY
RESTAURANTSSEXUAL ORIENTATIONSOCIAL ATTITUDES
SOCIAL BEHAVIOURSOCIAL CAPITALSOCIAL CLASS
SOCIAL EXCLUSIONSOCIAL INFLUENCESOCIAL PARTICIPATION
SPORTSPORT SPECTATORSHIPSPOUSE'S ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
TELEVISION PROGRAMMESTELEVISION VIEWINGTHEATRE ATTENDANCE
UNITED KINGDOMVISITS TO RECREATIONAL FACILITIES

Administrative and access information

Date of release:
First edition: 01 August 2008
Copyright: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Access conditions: The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See terms and conditions of access for further information.
Availability: UK Data Service
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Documentation

TitleFile NameSize (KB)
Data Listing q5832ulist.xls 55
User Guide 5832userguide.pdf 1428
Data Listing q5832ulist.pdf 29
Study information and citation UKDA_Study_5832_Information.htm 22
READ File read5832.htm 3

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Publications

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By principal investigator(s):
Bennett, T. (2007) 'Habitus clive: aesthetics and politics in the work of Pierre Bourdieu', New Literary History, 38(1), pp.201-228.

Bennett, T. (2006) 'Distinction on the box: cultural capital and the social space of television', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.193-212.

Bennett, T. (2006) 'Cultural capital and inequality: refining the policy calculus', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.239-244.

Bennett, T. (2005) 'The historical universal: the role of cultural value in the historical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.141-164.

Bennett, T. (2005) 'Cultural participation and social division', paper presented at the Institute of Public Policy Research workshop on Arts, Heritage and Civic Renewal, London, March 7, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2008, from http://www.ippr.org.uk/uploadedFiles/research/events/Arts_and_Culture/Tony%20Bennett_s%20presentation.doc

Bennett, T. and Savage, M. (2004) 'Introduction: cultural capital and cultural policy', Cultural Trends, 13(2), pp.7-14.

Bennett, T. and Silva, E.B. (2006) 'Cultural capital and inequality: policy issues and contexts', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.87-106.

Bennett, T. et al. (2005) Cultural capital and the cultural field in contemporary Britain, CRESC Working Paper 3, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Manchester University. See the CRESC Working Papers webpage.

Savage, M. (2006) 'The musical field', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.159-174.

Savage, M. and Bennett, T. (2005) 'Editors' introduction: cultural capital and social inequality', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.1-12.

Savage, M., Warde, A. and Devine, F. (2005) 'Capitals, assets, and resources: some critical issues', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.31-47.

Savage, M. et al. (2005) Cultural capital in the UK: a preliminary report using correspondence analysis, CRESC Working Paper 4, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Manchester University. See the CRESC Working Papers webpage.

Silva, E.B. (2006) 'Distinction through visual art', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.141-158.

Silva, E.B. (2006) 'Homologies of social space and elective affinities: researching cultural capital' Sociology, 40(6), pp.1171-1189.

Silva, E. B. (2005) 'Gender, home and family in cultural capital theory', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.83-103.

Silva, E.B. and Wright, D. (2005) 'The judgement of taste and social position in focus group research', Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, 76-77, pp.241-253.

Warde, A. (2006) 'Cultural capital and the place of sport', Cultural Trends, 15 (2/3), pp.107-122.

Warde, A., Wright, D. and Gayo-Cal, M. (2007) 'Understanding cultural omnivorousness: or, the myth of the cultural omnivore' Cultural Sociology, 1(2) pp.143-164.

Warde, A. and Wright, D. (2006) 'Understanding cultural omnivorousness or the myth of the omnivore', paper presented at the European Sociological Association Conference, Torun, Poland, September 2006.

Resulting from secondary analysis:
Gayo-Cal, M. (2006) 'Leisure and Participation in Britain', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.175-192.

Gayo-Cal, M., Savage, M. and Warde, A. (2006) 'A cultural map of the United Kingdom', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.213-238.

Gunn, S. (2005) 'Translating Bourdieu: cultural capital and the English middle class in historical perspective', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.49-64.

Hill, J. (2004) 'UK film policy, cultural capital and social exclusion', Cultural Trends, 13(2), pp.29-40.

Levitas, R. (2004) 'Let's hear it for Humpty: social exclusion, the third way and cultural capital', Cultural Trends, 13(2), pp.41-56.

Looseley, D. (2004) 'The development of a social exclusion agenda in French cultural policy', Cultural Trends, 13(2) pp.15-27.

McCrone, D. (2005) 'Cultural capital in an understated nation: the case of Scotland', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.65-82.

Modood. T. (2004) 'Capitals, ethnic identity and educational qualifications', Cultural Trends, 13(2), pp.87-106.

Prior, N. (2005) 'A question of perception: Bourdieu, art and the postmodern.', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.123-139.

Reay, D. (2004) 'Education and cultural capital: the implication of changing trends in education policies', Cultural Trends , 13(2), pp.73-86.

Robbins, D. (2005) 'The origins, early development and status of Bourdieu's concept of 'cultural capital'', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.13-30.

Roberts, K. (2004) 'Leisure inequalities, class divisions and social exclusion in present-day Britain', Cultural Trends, 13(2), pp.57-72.

Thomson, K. (2004) Cultural capital and social exclusion: survey technical report, London: National Centre for Social Research.

Wright, D. (2006) 'Cultural capital and the literary field', Cultural Trends, 15(2/3), pp.123-140.

Wright, D. (2005) 'Mediating production and consumption: cultural capital and 'cultural workers', The British Journal of Sociology, 56(1), pp.105-121.

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