I distinctly remember one of the first times I went to a contemporary gallery; I can't remember
which one it was. I was 17. I walked in the door and I was made to feel like a piece of shit …

Policy rhetoric around strategies to and the value of increasing participation in the arts has
been well documented internationally over more than a decade. But in the UK, which is the …

Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists
aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of …

The 'omnivore'hypothesis currently dominates the academic literature on the social
patterning of taste. It argues that cultural elites no longer resemble the traditional stereotype …

Theories in sociology argue that family background and individual experiences shape
cultural tastes and participation. Yet, we do not know the relative importance of each …

This article explores the relationship between age cohorts and music taste. Drawing on
quantitative data about the contemporary distribution of French music tastes, we note that a …

The paper aims to determine how cultural taste and social tolerance coincide and which
symbolic boundaries they relate to. The empirical analyses scrutinise three taste orientations …

Do ticketing data and national survey data on attendance tell the same story? This question
is particularly important in the context of debates over the power of new forms of data to …

En el presente artículo se caracteriza la fisionomía de la lectura en formatos digitales,
especialmente en comparación con los impresos. Para esto se analiza la lectura en …

Music Sociology critically evaluates current approaches to the study of music in sociology
and presents a broad overview of how music is positioned and represented in existing …