Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times

At the heart of this volume are the questions: What does culture mean to European citizens in the face of globalisation, digitalisation, diversity, and social inequality? How do Europeans engage with culture in its various forms, and what societal values are tied to this cultural engagement? These q...

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description At the heart of this volume are the questions: What does culture mean to European citizens in the face of globalisation, digitalisation, diversity, and social inequality? How do Europeans engage with culture in its various forms, and what societal values are tied to this cultural engagement? These questions are explored in depth across the 15 chapters of this book. By delving into the understandings, practices, perceptions, affordances, and impacts of culture, this book advances the study of the societal values of culture in contemporary European societies, offering insights beneficial to both research and cultural policy work. The book stands out with its five unique features. It embraces an inclusive conception of culture, spanning the arts, popular culture, and everyday cultural practices, both offline and online. It takes a grassroots approach, starting from the cultural understandings and experiences of European citizens. It employs a comparative method involving people from diverse socio-economic groups in nine European countries – with different cultural policy models, social-structural features, socio-cultural value orientations, and media systems. It builds on a multi- and mixed-methods approach, including a large-scale survey, a smartphone study with experimental stimuli, several phases of online content data collection and analysis, qualitative interviews, and focus groups. Finally, it delves into how wide-ranging and interconnected sociocultural transformations such as migration, digitalisation, and social inequality impact people’s understanding of and engagement with culture as well as the meanings and values they attribute to culture. These unique features promise to offer a fresh and comprehensive perspective on cultural engagement in contemporary European societies. The collection showcases the multiple, often contradictory concepts and understandings of culture and its societal values among social groups within and across European societies. The findings call for a “social turn” in cultural policy that extends beyond traditional arts and culture to support diverse cultural expressions that may enhance social values, address complex social issues, and shift the focus from economic objectives to promoting civic solidarity, equity, inclusivity, tolerance, and shared community values.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1592112025-06-24T08:01:34Z Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times Janssen, Susanne Kristensen, Nete Verboord, Marc arts culture cultural capital comparative research cultural democracy cultural participation cultural engagement cross-national research cultural sociology cultural policy cultural integration cultural values Europe Europeanization digital culture digitalization diversity societal values inclusion migration barriers boundaries thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology At the heart of this volume are the questions: What does culture mean to European citizens in the face of globalisation, digitalisation, diversity, and social inequality? How do Europeans engage with culture in its various forms, and what societal values are tied to this cultural engagement? These questions are explored in depth across the 15 chapters of this book. By delving into the understandings, practices, perceptions, affordances, and impacts of culture, this book advances the study of the societal values of culture in contemporary European societies, offering insights beneficial to both research and cultural policy work. The book stands out with its five unique features. It embraces an inclusive conception of culture, spanning the arts, popular culture, and everyday cultural practices, both offline and online. It takes a grassroots approach, starting from the cultural understandings and experiences of European citizens. It employs a comparative method involving people from diverse socio-economic groups in nine European countries – with different cultural policy models, social-structural features, socio-cultural value orientations, and media systems. It builds on a multi- and mixed-methods approach, including a large-scale survey, a smartphone study with experimental stimuli, several phases of online content data collection and analysis, qualitative interviews, and focus groups. Finally, it delves into how wide-ranging and interconnected sociocultural transformations such as migration, digitalisation, and social inequality impact people’s understanding of and engagement with culture as well as the meanings and values they attribute to culture. These unique features promise to offer a fresh and comprehensive perspective on cultural engagement in contemporary European societies. The collection showcases the multiple, often contradictory concepts and understandings of culture and its societal values among social groups within and across European societies. The findings call for a “social turn” in cultural policy that extends beyond traditional arts and culture to support diverse cultural expressions that may enhance social values, address complex social issues, and shift the focus from economic objectives to promoting civic solidarity, equity, inclusivity, tolerance, and shared community values. 2025-05-09T10:52:21Z 2025-05-09T10:52:21Z 2025-05-08T09:16:59Z 2025 book ONIX_20250508_9781040276662_26 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101391 9781040276662 9781003460497 9781032583105 9781040276716 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159211 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101391/1/9781040276662.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101391/1/9781040276662.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003460497 10.4324/9781003460497 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 European Commission 3983007a-5726-4f1e-b9df-3fbc771f2916 9781040276662 9781003460497 9781032583105 9781040276716 EU collection Routledge 368 Oxford [...] open access
spellingShingle arts
culture
cultural capital
comparative research
cultural democracy
cultural participation
cultural engagement
cross-national research
cultural sociology
cultural policy
cultural integration
cultural values
Europe
Europeanization
digital culture
digitalization
diversity
societal values
inclusion
migration
barriers
boundaries
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times
title Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times
title_full Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times
title_fullStr Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times
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title_short Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times
title_sort engagement with culture in transformative times
topic arts
culture
cultural capital
comparative research
cultural democracy
cultural participation
cultural engagement
cross-national research
cultural sociology
cultural policy
cultural integration
cultural values
Europe
Europeanization
digital culture
digitalization
diversity
societal values
inclusion
migration
barriers
boundaries
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
topic_facet arts
culture
cultural capital
comparative research
cultural democracy
cultural participation
cultural engagement
cross-national research
cultural sociology
cultural policy
cultural integration
cultural values
Europe
Europeanization
digital culture
digitalization
diversity
societal values
inclusion
migration
barriers
boundaries
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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