Exploring patterns of children’s cultural participation: parental cultural capitals and their transmission
Cultural participation during childhood significantly impacts an individual’s chances of future social mobility and well-being. Research to date has focused disproportionately on adults’ cultural practices, failing to comprehensively examine how children’s cultural participation is formed, structured and linked to their parents’. Drawing upon data from the Taking Part Survey, this article first examines the cultural profiles that emerge in children’s participation in England (including highbrow, eclectic, popular or restricted) and then employs regression techniques to disentangle the effects of parental capital (level of education versus cultural participation profile) on children’s cultural profiles. The analysis provides the greater granularity needed to understand the relative strength and significance of parentally embodied versus institutionalised cultural capital in children’s varying forms of engagement with arts and culture. While the patterns of intergenerational transmission revealed in the study largely confirm the role of institutionalised cultural capital in the reproduction of cultural inequality, they also reveal the significance of parental participation for children’s cultural participation. This highlights the need to approach cultural mobility and arts engagement policies at the household level rather than targeting children individually.
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy
Published in
Consumption and SocietyVolume
1Issue
1Pages
170 - 196Publisher
Bristol University PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Rights holder
© The AuthorsPublisher statement
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Consumption and Society. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Leguina, A., Karademir-Hazir, I. and Azpitarte, F. (2022) Exploring patterns of children’s cultural participation: parental cultural capitals and their transmission, Consumption and Society, 1(1): 170–196, DOI: 10.1332/IOJW2616 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/IOJW2616Acceptance date
2022-05-02Publication date
2022-08-11Copyright date
2022eISSN
2752-8499Publisher version
Language
- en