Highbrow omnivorousness on the small screen?: Cultural industry systems and patterns of cultural choice in Europe
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Omar Lizardo is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Notre Dame. His primary research interests are cultural sociology, the sociology of media and the arts and cultural globalization. He is currently working on research that deals with the relationship between cultural capital and the instrumental use of social ties and with Stephen Vaisey, research that examines the effect of cultural worldviews on the composition of social networks of American
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2016, PoeticsCitation Excerpt :One basic finding is now well-established: members of the educated, salaried professional elite are more likely to actively appropriate a wider variety of aesthetic offerings, within and across industry-defined genre categories and institutional contexts of dissemination and reception (Lizardo, 2008; Peterson, 2005; Prieur and Savage, 2011). In essence, what it means to be high-status in many contemporary societies is to be an equal opportunity connoisseur of diverse cultural offerings and aesthetic experiences across domains (e.g. literature versus film, and within domains across substyles), forms of delivery (e.g. non-profit versus commercial systems) and external legitimation (e.g. “prescribed” or “authorized” culture versus “pop culture”, “folk culture” or “kitsch”) (Lizardo & Skiles, 2008, 2009; Peterson & Kern, 1996). The persistent focus of the cultural stratification literature on the question of whether lifestyle practices continue to be unevenly segmented according to class and status markers has resulted in a relative lack of attention to an equally important question: what is the role of aesthetic consumption in everyday life?
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2015, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second EditionCultural consumption across countries: A multi-level analysis of social inequality in highbrow culture in Europe
2013, PoeticsCitation Excerpt :Although many studies from various countries firmly confirm the link between an individual's socio-economic position and highbrow cultural behavior, adequate comparisons of cultural inequality between countries are still scarce (Katz-Gerro, 2011). For television viewing, Lizardo and Skiles (2009) do show that country specific circumstances matter in the formation of people's cultural preferences, and Notten et al. (2009) report on country-differences in media usage among 15-year-olds. With respect to highbrow cultural consumption, studies of social inequality across counties often compare only small numbers of countries and employ separate regression models instead of more appropriate multi-level models (Chan and Goldthorpe, 2010; Katz-Gerro, 2002, 2006; Kraaykamp and Nieuwbeerta, 2000).
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Omar Lizardo is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Notre Dame. His primary research interests are cultural sociology, the sociology of media and the arts and cultural globalization. He is currently working on research that deals with the relationship between cultural capital and the instrumental use of social ties and with Stephen Vaisey, research that examines the effect of cultural worldviews on the composition of social networks of American adolescents.
Sara Skiles is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include consumption of cultural and material culture, cultural capital theory and statistics and methods. She is currently working on projects examining the cultural logic of extracurricular participation in high schools, attitudinal predictors of consumer debt, moral decision making, and the role of the student as presented in popular media.