Going to concerts can be seen as a form of communal consumption whereby like-minded music fans can feel a sense of belonging and community and in which in- and out-group dynamics are central ( Hills, 2002 O’Sullivan, 2009). We used data from a large survey comparing audiences at 17 large concert venues in Flanders. In this paper, we analyzed the cultural logics that concertgoers use to structure their musical preferences and how this relates to different modes of consuming concerts. However, the researchers are confident that their data 'offers a relatively undistorted picture of general fiction readership in Russia as far as attributes of readers are concerned’.All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALS The data might be imperfect for understanding wider reading patternsįirstly, book borrowing is not the same thing as book reading, and secondly, the stock held by public libraries is not a reflection of all possible available literature. There were three broadly ‘highbrow’ categories (‘Literature for children - Russian classics’, ‘Contemporary Russian prose’, and ‘International classics’) and four ‘lowbrow’ categories (‘Russian fantasy/science fiction’, ‘Translated detectives’, 'Translated romance/ detectives’ and ‘Russian romance/detectives’). These measures became an indicator of ‘highbrow-ness’ or ‘lowbrow-ness’. The study found that borrowing patterns revealed seven general categories of fictionĬategories were assigned a level of ‘legitimacy’ according to whether the authors in them were in the school curriculum or had won a major domestic literary prize or the Nobel Prize.
This study just looked at books borrowed by readers aged over 20, to avoid having the findings skewed by educational demands.
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The library system held data on ‘the gender, year of birth, education completed, general employment status (using the categories pre-school, school pupil, student at vocational school, university student, manual worker, non-manual worker, unemployed, retired) and occupation of a reader’. The study is based on books and their usage rather than the preferences of individuals Additionally, they saw that 'the strongest cultural boundaries exist between different less privileged groups rather than between privileged and non-privileged ones'. The researchers took data from the city's public library network to show that highbrow categories of books are preferred by highly educated readers of all ages and genders, whereas lowbrow categories of books tend to have more segregated groups of readers, either by age or gender.
This paper examined data from public libraries in St Petersburg, Russia, to identify whether or not an ‘omnivorous’ reading habit is only associated with people in elite or privileged status groups. This research was conducted by Mikhail Sokolov and Nadezhda Sokolova at European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia Summary
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