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Access to arts consumption: The stratification of aesthetic life-chances
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Abstract This paper develops the concept of access to arts consumption as a necessary link connecting cultural taste and actual consumption. I present a theoretical model that deconstructs access to arts consumption into four dimensions of access: rights, opportunity, participation, and reception. I operatio... view more
This paper develops the concept of access to arts consumption as a necessary link connecting cultural taste and actual consumption. I present a theoretical model that deconstructs access to arts consumption into four dimensions of access: rights, opportunity, participation, and reception. I operationalize and test the model in the context of access to physical cultural consumption using Eurobarometer data on barriers to such access from a sample of respondents from 27 European countries. Utilizing regression analyses, I examine how different types of access are socially distributed. The results reveal the individual and country-level variables that shape physical access to art. The findings highlight the importance of using a multi-dimensional concept of access in the study of arts consumption. They also have implications for planning arts policies designed to increase access to art, both physical and online, especially post-COVID-19.... view less
Keywords
Eurobarometer; art; culture; consumption; cultural factors; inequality; comparative research
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
access to arts and culture; arts consumption; cultural consumption; cultural inequality; Eurobarometer 2007
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 497-744
Journal
Journal of Consumer Culture, 23 (2023) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/14695405221133269
ISSN
1469-5405
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed