What Does it Mean to be a Cultural Omnivore? Conflicting Visions of Omnivorousness in Empirical Research

نویسندگان

چکیده

The ‘omnivore’ hypothesis currently dominates the academic literature on social patterning of taste. It argues that cultural elites no longer resemble traditional stereotype an elitist snob. Instead, they are more likely to be ‘omnivores’ with broad tastes encompassing both elite and popular forms. omnivore has inspired than two decades research debate, without a clear resolution. In this article, we argue progress in debate been impeded part due elision distinct interpretations hypothesis: strong interpretation, which holds generally averse class-based exclusivity; weak interpretation that, while have encompass forms, do not necessarily repudiate exclusion. We demonstrate how drawing distinction helps clarify existing empirical evidence concerning hypothesis.

برای دانلود باید عضویت طلایی داشته باشید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

What Does It Mean to Be Musical?

Music can be seen as a model system for understanding gene × environment interactions and how these can influence neurocognitive development. The concept of musicality, however, is underspecified and not well understood. Here, I propose a framework for defining musicality to provide a foundation for studying the contributions of biological and environmental factors.

متن کامل

What does it mean to be green?

Today a company is not considered environmentalist unless it moves beyond mere compliance with government regulations to behavior its competitors, and even customers, do not expect. How should it set its agenda? Author Art Kleiner proposes that, to be green, a company must ask three questions: What products should we bring to market? How much disclosure of pollution information should we suppor...

متن کامل

The Physical Self-concept. What Does It Mean to Be Old: What Does It Mean to Be Young? the Physical Self-concept. What Does It Mean to Be Old: What Does It Mean to Be Young?

2 Does the concept of physical self remain stable across age? Or does the concept of physical self change as the body wearies and changes in shape? Do the components emphasised in our evaluation of our physical selves change with age or remain stable? Without evaluating such questions it is inappropriate to talk about Physical Self-Concept as though it is the same thing, with just different sco...

متن کامل

[What does it mean to be a development worker?].

Hoy, 8 de septiembre de 2010, dı́a del cooperante. Desde el año 2006 el Consejo de Ministros acordó esa fecha como el dı́a de la celebración para este colectivo, coincidiendo con la fecha de la firma de la declaración del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas. Y, ¿qué significa ser cooperante? La Real Academia Española lo define como )la persona que ayuda al desarrollo de un paı́s necesitado de él social...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Sociological Research Online

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1360-7804']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211006109