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dc.contributor.authorPurhonen, Semi
dc.contributor.authorHeikkilä, Riie
dc.contributor.authorKarademir Hazir, Irmak
dc.contributor.authorLauronen, Tina
dc.contributor.authorFernández Rodríguez, Carlos J.
dc.contributor.authorGronow, Jukka
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-05 13:51:25
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T06:49:13Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T06:49:13Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier1007817
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22362
dc.description.abstractKey debates of contemporary cultural sociology – the rise of the ‘cultural omnivore’, the fate of classical ‘highbrow’ culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture – deal with temporal changes. Yet, systematic research about these processes is scarce due to the lack of suitable longitudinal data. This book explores these questions through the lens of a crucial institution of cultural mediation – the culture sections in quality European newspapers – from 1960 to 2010. Starting from the framework of cultural stratification and employing systematic content analysis both quantitative and qualitative of more than 13,000 newspaper articles, Enter Culture, Exit Arts? presents a synthetic yet empirically rich and detailed account of cultural transformation in Europe over the last five decades. It shows how classifications and hierarchies of culture have changed in course of the process towards increased cultural heterogeneity. Furthermore, it conceptualizes the key trends of rising popular culture and declining highbrow arts as two simultaneous processes: the one of legitimization of popular culture and the other of popularization of traditional legitimate culture, both important for the loosening of the boundary between ‘highbrow’ and ‘popular’. Through careful comparative analysis and illustrative snapshots into the specific socio-historical contexts in which the newspapers and their representations of culture are embedded – in Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the UK – the book reveals the key patterns and diversity of European variations in the transformation of cultural hierarchies since the 1960s. The book is a collective endeavour of a large-scale international research project active between 2013 and 2018.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.titleEnter Culture, Exit Arts?
dc.title.alternativeThe Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315183404
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isbn9781351728041
oapen.relation.isbn9781138740556
oapen.relation.isbn9781315183404
oapen.relation.isbn9780367665319
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages274
oapen.remark.public21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9781138740556
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: University of Helsinki


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