From exclusive to inclusive elitists and further: Twenty years of omnivorousness and cultural diversity in arts participation in the USA

Jordi López-Sintas; Tally Katz-Gerro

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2005.10.004

From exclusive to inclusive elitists and further: Twenty years of omnivorousness and cultural diversity in arts participation in the USA

Jordi López-Sintas, Tally Katz-Gerro

Department of Sociology

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Research on cultural omnivorousness is expanded by examination of cultural participation and by anchoring omnivorousness alongside other patterns of cultural consumption in a comparative context over time in the USA. Between 1982 and 2002, at the aggregate level little change was found in cultural consumption of live performing arts, but patterns of attendance did change, with an increase in cultural differentiation. It was expressed in quasi-omnivorous and entertainment patterns that drew consumers away from more traditional highbrow consumption patterns. Increase in cultural differentiation was associated with rise in educational levels; this may reflect a link between the breadth of consumption patterns of the elite and their need for scale and synthesis in cultural knowledge.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	299-319
Number of pages	21
Journal	Poetics
Volume	33
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2005.10.004
State	Published - Oct 2005

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The authors express their appreciation to Princeton University’s Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive and the National Endowment for the Arts. This research was funded by Grant #BEC2003-04462 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, Technical Department of the Humanities and Social Sciences. We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments and Moran Talmor for research assistance.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
Communication
Sociology and Political Science
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory

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