Evaluating the social impact of participation in arts activities
Evaluating the social impact of participation in arts activities
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评估参与艺术活动的社会影响
DOI：
10.1080/10286630290032477
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
P. Merli
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作者：
P. Merli
1993年，独立研究组织Comedia代表大不列颠艺术理事会编写了一份关于艺术的社会影响的讨论文件（Landry等人，1993年）。继这项研究之后，1995-1996年又进行了一项实证研究项目，重点是参与性艺术方案的社会影响，由弗朗索瓦·马塔拉索为Comedia协调，产生了有影响力的报告《使用还是安排？《参与艺术的社会影响》，（马塔拉索，1997年）。除其他外，研究方案包括工作文件《艺术如何衡量》（威廉姆斯，1997年），这是对1994-1995年在澳大利亚艺术理事会支助下开展的关于社区艺术的社会影响的研究项目（创造社会资本，1996年）的更新。威廉姆斯的研究开创了马塔拉索在他的研究中发展的方法论。虽然早期关于艺术的社会影响的出版物相对较少受到关注，但马塔拉索的研究在英国文化政策制定者中建立近乎共识方面发挥了重要作用。当时的文化、媒体和体育大臣克里斯·史密斯在1997年9月19日于伦敦剧场举行的费边社会议上和1998年1月14日在哈特菲尔德赫特福德郡大学的演讲中引用了这项研究（史密斯，1998年）。马塔拉索的研究因此在政治上变得重要，值得批判性分析。它从一个特定的意识形态角度展开了艺术的社会影响这一复杂的主题。这部分是由于作者强烈希望与政策进程相关和有用，并为决策作出贡献，但这种相关性似乎已经实现，损害了研究工作的质量。
In 1993 the independent research organisation Comedia, on behalf of the Arts Council of Great Britain, produced a discussion document on the social impact of the arts (Landry et al., 1993). The study was followed in 1995–1996 by an empirical research project focused on the social impact of participatory arts programmes, co-ordinated by François Matarasso for Comedia, producing the influential report Use or Ornament? The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts, (Matarasso, 1997). The research programme included, among others, the working paper How the Arts Measure Up (Williams, 1997), an updating of a research project on the social impact of community arts (Creating Social Capital, 1996) carried out in Australia in 1994–1995 with support by the Australia Council for the Arts. Williams’ study pioneered the methodology developed by Matarasso in his research. While earlier publications on the social impact of the arts had attracted relatively little attention, Matarasso’s study has played an important role in establishing a near-consensus in Britain among cultural policy-makers. The research was cited by the then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Smith, in speeches at the Fabian Society conference at the Playhouse Theatre, London, on 19th September 1997, and at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield on 14th January 1998 (Smith, 1998). Matarasso’s research has thus become politically important and worthy of critical analysis. It develops the complex theme of the social impact of the arts from a particular ideological perspective. This is partly due to the author’s strong desire to be relevant and useful to the policy process and to contribute to decision-making, but such relevance seems to have been achieved to the detriment of the quality of the research work.