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Comparing “cosmopolitanism” : taste, nation and global culture in Finland and the UK
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Wright, David, Purhonen, Semi and Heikkilä, Riie (2013) Comparing “cosmopolitanism” : taste, nation and global culture in Finland and the UK. Comparative Sociology, Volume 12 (Number 3). pp. 330-360. doi:10.1163/15691330-12341266 ISSN 1569-1322.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341266
Abstract
This paper adds a comparative perspective to the study of taste, cosmopolitanism and social organisation. Drawing on material provided by two similar projects in the UK and Finland it explores the relationships between national and cosmopolitan taste cultures. Whilst there have been some recent attempts to study taste in a comparative perspective, the weight of sociological inquiry into taste is focussed on specific national spaces, including the France of Bourdieu’s (1984) seminal contribution. This tendency persists even as the production and circulation of culture is increasingly accepted as global. Global culture is assumed to be the driver of cosmopolitan ways of being, but is also interpreted as a threat to distinct national cultures. Studies of taste provide an empirical setting where the lived experience of global culture and the ambiguities of cosmopolitanism can be observed. Based on interviews and focus group discussions from the UK and Finland, the paper broadly concurs with those critics who see cosmopolitanism in the context of the maintenance of privileged political or symbolic positions of classes/status groups.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, Culture and globalization, Popular culture and globalization -- Great Britain, Popular culture and globalization -- Finland, Cosmopolitanism -- Great Britain, Cosmopolitanism -- Finland | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Comparative Sociology | ||||
Publisher: | Brill | ||||
ISSN: | 1569-1322 | ||||
Official Date: | May 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 12 | ||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 330-360 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1163/15691330-12341266 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | British Academy (BA), Suomen Akatemia [Academy of Finland] | ||||
Grant number: | 54635 (BA) ; 139813 (SA) |
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