Understanding Cultural Non-Participation in an Egalitarian Context

Riie Heikkilä is a Docent of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University, Finland. Her main research interests include cultural and social stratification, the links between cultural consumption and production, and the mechanisms behind inequal distribution of cultural capital. She has published widely on these topics in journals such as The Sociological Review, New Media & Society and American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Her most recent book is Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010 (Routledge 2019, together with Semi Purhonen, Irmak Karademir Hazir, Tina Lauronen, Carlos Jesús Fernández Rodríguez and Jukka Gronow).

• Part I: Situating The Research.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Contextualising Cultural Participation.- 3. What Do We Know About Cultural Participation And Non-Participation?.- 4. Defining The Research Object.- Part Ii: Cultural Milieus Of The “Potentially Passive”.- 5. Affirmation.- 6. Functionality.- 7. Resistance.- Part Iii: Paving The Way For Future Debates.- 8. Conclusion.