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Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu The volume presents theoretical work on the relevance, adequacy and actuality of Bourdieu’s theory to in the field of music research.

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Thank you very much for you comment. And thanks for sharing your paper. I'm gonna read it very soon, as I'm myself working on library in France right now! I look forward to meeting you at a conference or elsewhere

Ultimately, the pass Culture is working, but it's not widening participation in the domains the Ministry of Culture usually promotes.

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The takeaway is important for understanding social inequality in cultural consumption: The financial barriers are not very relevant for highbrow culture, but they do appear to contribute to non-participation in popular cultural life among certain youth demographics.

However, I found no significant effect on participation in institutional highbrow activities, such as theater, opera attendance or museum visit.
This suggests that addressing price only does not boost highbrow culture participation.

My econometric analysis, based on a large-scale survey, reveals a key insight about this policy: Culture voucher significantly increases engagement with commercial popular culture, primarily boosting things like cinema attendance and comic book reading.

Over the last decade, many European states have introduced universal culture vouchers—like the €300 French 'pass Culture' offered to all 18-year-olds—to boost cultural participation. But are they truly effective at widening access and bridging social gaps? That's what I test in this paper.

The image showcases the paper title and its abstract. You can read it in PDF format here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pmdvy_v1

The image report regression model results. It shows the net effect of ‘pass Culture’ grant spending on 12-month participation likelihood of several cultural practices. For a full description of the results, read section 7.2.2 in the linked article.

I'm excited to share my new paper: "What Do Culture Vouchers Really Buy? Evidence from France's ‘pass Culture’ Policy Effects" now published on SocArxiv. This research dives into a major cultural policy experiment.

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#sociology #culturalpolicy #culturalconsumption

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Thank you very much, sir! Sooner or later, I'll share another paper of mine that might interest you. It's about French cultural policy, but I can't say much more!

I am thrilled to share with you my first publication in a peer-reviewed journal! Thank you for everything @scoavoux.bsky.social

Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

abstract that tricks you into thinking the paper is good

"Is it possible to learn this power" Starwars Anakin meme

👋 J'ai participé à la rédaction du rapport de la Cour des comptes cité dans tous les articles de presse sur le sujet aujourd'hui.
Si vous voulez les analyses complètes, parfois un peu plus nuancées que dans les journaux, n'hésitez pas à lire le rapport : www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publicati...

My favourite epigraph. From @jordanshiveley.bsky.social Hot Singles in Your Area

Evidemment il fait des stats... à bon entendeur...

Woah, on avait presque oublié à quoi pouvait ressembler un fil Twitter rempli d'autre chose que des reposts et autres ordures, pour le dire poliment...