Cultural organizations are categorized by cultural products (high or popular culture) and by organizational form (nonprofit or commercial). In sociology, these classifications are understood predominantly through a Bourdieusian lens, which links cultural consumption to habitus and a class-based struggle for distinction. However, people’s engagement with institutionalized cultural classification...

This paper aims to rethink creative city theory by analyzing urban regeneration processes in Japan through cultural creativity and social inclusion. The impact of Florida’s theory has led to the common misperception that cities prosper as people of the creative class, such as artists and gays, gather. However, attracting people of the creative class does not automatically make a creative city. ...

Cultural Algorithms (CA) are a class of computational models derived from observing the cultural evolution process in nature. The Cultural Algorithm is a dual inheritance system that characterizes evolution in human culture at both the macro-evolutionary level, which takes place within the belief space, and at the micro-evolutionary level, which occurs at the population space. Cultural algorith...

Abstract How does social mobility influence cultural taste and participation? Cultural reproduction theory predicts little change, while suggests more substantial makeover. This article explores the of upward educational occupational in reading literature, participation highbrow activities, television watching, music food tastes, focusing on from secondary-level education working class to highe...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

The relationship between media practices and social inequality has been studied within a range of sub-disciplines in communication studies cultural sociology. In various, more or less direct, ways these point to the fact that habitus – socially formed class specific relations world generates certain tastes, lifestyles, preferences. When groups form relatively distinct practices, distance themse...