Reflection on Legitimate and Popular Taste: Cultural Capital and Cultural Consumption in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Huei-kuan Wu, 吳慧寬
• Other Authors: Chih-Lung Hsieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75815063206464964081

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 公共與文化事務學系區域政策與發展研究碩士班 === 101 === The analysis, in an effort to see how cultural capital theory employed in Taiwan and to find feature of cultural consumption, reviews cultural consumption phenomena by cultural capital. This report is based on quantitative analysis of Taiwan Social Change Survey 2007, Phase 5, Wave 3. To make the variables suitable for current society of Taiwan, cultural capital area is divided into two levels: legitimate taste and popular taste. Besides clarifying how people are affected by different cultural consumption, the effect of different social stratification, features, and inhabitants are the focuses being discussed. The research found the relations between cultural capital and cultural consumption, which also testifies the assumption that peoples’ cultural consumption is indeed influenced by cultural capital. To take family background and individual factors into consideration, the effect of family background is not as much as we imagine. Individual factors effects a lot on cultural capital and cultural consumption rather than family background. The most influential factor is educational degree. People with higher educational degree have more cultural capital and also the frequency of cultural consumption. Besides, the places people live also make effect on cultural consumption. Although no evidence shows relations between inhabitance and la cultural capital, the frequency of cultural consumption is affected by inhabitance due to the uneven distribution of cultural resources.