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Cultural lifestyles and values of urban youth in Adriatic Croatia

This presentation is based on empirical data from a survey carried out in the period from November 2015 to March 2016 among high-school students in Adriatic region (Croatia). Data was collected from the representative sample of 2600 third and fourth grade high school students in six larger cities on the Adriatic coast (Pula, Rijeka, Zadar, Šibenik, Split and Dubrovnik). Main goal of the research project was to explore the structure of cultural preferences and cultural consumption as well as the effects of value orientations and parental economic and cultural capital. Relying on the concept of cultural capital (Bourdieu) and on other important theoretical approaches, this presentation explores and provide interpretation for the patterns of youth cultural consumption. In order to determine different patterns of cultural preferences, exploratory factor analysis was used, which identified four types of musical taste and five types of cultural consumption. After establishing these factors, hierarchical regression analysis was used to determine the effects of socio-demographic and socio-economic variables, value orientations, institutionalized cultural capital of respondents and parental cultural capital. The obtained results suggest not only existence of specific groups of cultural consumers but also the moderate relationship between value orientations and cultural taste. In particular, our results indicate the cultural and ideological divide along the line of modern and anti-modern identities in Croatian society. In addition, the results of multivariate analysis clearly corroborate the idea of intergenerational transmission of cultural capital. The implications of findings are interpreted and discussed in relation to previous studies of cultural consumption and lifestyle in Croatia and other post-socialist societies.

cultural lifestyles ; youth ; values ; post-socialism ; Adriatic region

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