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Intergenerational transmission of cultural capital: The case of Zadar (Croatia)

Empirical research on the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital is of great relevance to understanding social differentiation and persistence of inequalities in modern societies. The growing body of research in this field has shown the parental background and family's cultural resources to be an important context of lifestyle construction. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between cultural preferences of high-school students and various forms of cultural capital of their parents. This presentation is based on empirical data from a survey carried out in 2014 among high-school students in Zadar County (Croatia). Relying on the concept of cultural capital in its embodied, objectified and institutionalized state (Bourdieu, 1983), this paper examines the structure of the cultural preferences as well as the effects of parental economic resources and cultural capital. In order to determine different patterns of cultural preferences, exploratory factor analysis was used, which identified three types of adolescents's cultural consumption: traditional-popular, rock-alternative and high culture. After establishing these factors, hierarchical regression analysis was used to determine the effects of parental cultural capital, with controlling for other variables. Our research seems to clearly corroborate the idea of intergenerational transmission of cultural capital. In particular, our results indicate that parental embodied cultural capital is a better predictor than the other two states of cultural capital and economic capital per se. The results are interpreted with reference to theoretical approaches to cultural consumption and recent studies of cultural capital and lifestyle differentiation in Croatia and other post-socialist countries.

cultural consumption; cultural capital; lifestyle; Zadar

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