‘Culture is a Meritocracy’: Why Creative Workers’ Attitudes may Reinforce Social Inequality
‘Culture is a Meritocracy’: Why Creative Workers’ Attitudes may Reinforce Social Inequality
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“文化是精英统治”：为什么创意工作者的态度可能会加剧社会不平等
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2017
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通讯作者：
D. O’Brien
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作者：
M. Taylor;D. O’Brien
文化和创意工作者的态度和价值观是解释当前学术界对不平等和文化的兴趣的一个重要因素。迄今为止，对文化和创意不平等这一要素的定量方法一直被忽视，特别是在英国的研究中。本文使用独特的数据集调查了从事创意工作的人的态度：创意工作者态度的网络调查 (n = 2487)。通过主成分分析和回归，我们得到了三个主要发现。首先，与理查德·佛罗里达关于“创意阶层”的态度和价值观的论文相反，我们的受访者的态度并不比普通民众更精英化。其次，那些最相信该行业精英管理的人是那些处于最特权地位的人，特别是那些在该行业获得最好回报的人。第三，我们的研究为现有的文化部门态度定性研究提供了支持，在文化部门，报酬最差的工人最了解结构性不平等。我们的结论是，创意工作者所持有的态度以及谁持有哪种态度，使得进入该部门的机会以及该部门内个人进步的轨迹不太可能改变。这些发现对于当前公众的兴趣也具有重要意义，即获得创造性工作是否仅限于来自特权背景的人。
The attitudes and values of cultural and creative workers are an important element of explaining current academic interest in inequality and culture. To date, quantitative approaches to this element of cultural and creative inequality have been overlooked, particularly in British research. This article investigates the attitudes of those working in creative jobs with a unique dataset: a web survey of creative workers’ attitudes (n = 2487). Using principal components analysis and regression, we have three main findings. First, in contrast to Richard Florida’s thesis on the attitudes and values of ‘the creative class’, our respondents’ attitudes were no more meritocratic than those of the general population. Second, those with the strongest belief in meritocracy in the sector are those in the most privileged positions, specifically those are best rewarded by the sector. Third, our research provides support for existing qualitative research on attitudes in the cultural sector, in which the worst rewarded workers are most aware of structural inequality. We conclude that the attitudes held by creative workers, and who holds which attitudes, make it unlikely that access to the sector and trajectories of individual progression within the sector will change. These findings also have important implications for current public interest in whether access to creative work is limited to those from privileged backgrounds.
抵抗与顺从：对英国演艺界类型转换的回应
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1.9
作者：
Friedman S
通讯作者：
Friedman S