Cultural participation : trends since the Middle Ages / editors, Ann Rigney, Douwe Fokkema.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rigney, Ann.

Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, 1931-2011.

Series:

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; 31.

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature, 0167-8175 ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Citizen participation--History.

Arts.

Arts and society--History.

Arts and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1993.

Summary:

Culture is studied in this collection, not merely as a set of products, but in terms of the involvement of individuals and groups in the making and using of such products. A wide range of activities, from the reading and writing of poetry to watching soccer on television, is surveyed by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines: cultural history, literary studies, sociology. Topics include the social distribution of cultural activities, populism and elitism in modern aesthetics, the nature of cultural competence and the channels through which it is acquired, the impact of electronic media on traditional modes of culturalinvolvement, the role of public institutions such as churches, schools, and libraries in stimulating participation, and the relationship between cultural participation and socialization.

Contents:

CULTURAL PARTICIPATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; Notes; References; The Benefits of Clergie; Notes; References; The Uses of the Past (14th-16th Centuries); References; Cultural Participation as Stimulated by the Seventeenth-Century Reformed Church; Notes; References; The Ability to Select; References; Creating an Instrument of Cultural Transmission; The First School Reform; The Law of 1857 and the Second School Reform; The Denominational Schools; The Transmission of Culture by Primary Schools around 1900; References

Learning over Class I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; Notes; References; References; The Flaneur and the Production of Culture; I; II; III; IV; Notes; References; The Increasing Autonomy of Literary Institutions in Belgium in the Late Nineteenth Century; Notes; References; The Public as a Constituent of Poetics; Soccer, U.S.A.; References; References; Reading in Social and Cultural Life; References; Cultural Inequalities in Cross-national Perspective; 1. Introduction and Research Questions; 2. Theoretical Background and Predictions

3. Income, Education, and Cultural Participation in Five Countries 3.1. Data; 3.2. Analysis: Five Nations Compared; 4. Education and Theater going in 17 Countries; 4.1. Data on Education and Theater going; 4.2. Data on Country Characteristics; 4.3. Is the Relation between Education and Theater going Similar in all Industrial Nations?; 4.4. Do Country Characteristics Explain Differences in the Relation between Education and Theater going?; 4.5. The Relationship between the Effect of Education on Theater going and other Measures for Societal Inequality; 5. Conclusions and Speculations; References

Appendix 1 Correlation matrices Appendix 1 Correlation matrices; Appendix 2 Sources for crossings of education against theater going; The Gentrification of a Rearguard; 1. Introduction; 2. Definition of the Problem; 3. Steps Towards an Explanation; 4. Testing the Theses; 6. Conclusions and Discussion; Notes; References; Appendix; The Text-analytical Study of Art Criticism; References; Culture as a Network of Socially Constructed Realities; 1. The Problem of Method in an Explanatory Model of Culture 1; 2. Outline of the Model; 2.1 The biological level: the dual inheritance system

2.2. The social level: active systems 2.3 The cultural level: networks of realities and ways of handling them; 3. Dynamic Aspects of the Model; 3.1 Self-organizing formation of subsystems; 3.2 Characteristics and subsystems emerging during the process of differentiation; 4. Conclusion; Notes; References; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-42437-1

9786613424372

90-272-7682-X

OCLC:

769344099