New publication by Jörg Rössel et al.: «Cultural participation beyond the individual»
This newly published study explores individual and country-level differences in cultural participation across Europe, using a most-different-systems design and the 2008 debt crisis as a quasi-experimental treatment
A new research article has been published:
«Cultural participation beyond the individual: How national socioeconomic and cultural modernization shapes the link between social position and participation»
Jörg Rössel (SUZ), Jordi López-Sintas (UAB), Giuseppe Lamberti (UAB), and Željka Zdravković (UNIZD)
First published online July 20, 2025 in International Journal of Comparative Sociology
Read full article here:https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152251324171
Abstract:
This study explores individual and country-level differences in cultural participation across Europe, using a most-different-systems design and the 2008 debt crisis as a quasi-experimental treatment. We identified distinct patterns of highbrow (six within-country patterns and three between-country clusters) and lowbrow (four patterns and three clusters) cultural participation by analyzing Eurobarometer, European Values Study, and World Bank data with multilevel latent class regression modeling. Results show that in socioeconomically and culturally modernized countries, an individual’s social position has less impact on cultural participation. In addition, these countries experienced a less-pronounced negative effect from the 2008 debt crisis on cultural participation.
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