Jaka Primorac, PhD, from the Department of Culture and Communication at IRMO, in co-authorship with Željka Tonković, PhD, Krešimir Krolo, PhD (Department of Sociology, University of Zadar), and Karin Doolan, PhD (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb-IDIZ), has published the article entitled The global/local and omnivore/univore nexus: class divisions and cultural tastes in contemporary Croatia.
The article was published in the prestigious international journal Cultural Trends (Q1, Web of Science, Current Contents, Scopus), and is the result of the research activities conducted as a part of the project “Social Stratification in Croatia: Structural and Subjective Aspects” (Croatian Science Foundation; UIP-2014-09-3134).
Abstract:
Research on Bourdieu’s “homology” thesis and Peterson’s “omnivore” hypothesis, as well as research on cultural cosmopolitanism, are integral to academic considerations of the interrelationship between class and cultural tastes. This paper contributes to such work by examining cultural tastes in Croatia, a context that occupies a peripheral position in the global cultural system. Multiple correspondence analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were applied to survey data. We find that the main class distinction is between those who simultaneously express a cosmopolitan orientation and a taste in elite culture, and those who dislike both elite and non-Croatian cultural products. There is no group of “highbrow” univores in our sample, but rather those higher up the class hierarchy display different types of omnivorous tastes. A novelty of the study is identifying a multiplicity of more univorous cultural tastes. Our results point to complex cultural repertoires in which multiple forces of social structuring overlap.
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