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Enzo Grossi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cultural Participation and health: Some medical and scientific evidences
2017Co-Authors: Enzo GrossiAbstract:In this article the author reviews the medical and scientific evidence of the role of Cultural Participation in the promotion of health in term of premature mortality risk reduction and improvement of subjective wellbeing. The available evidence coming from several studies carried out in different countries in the last twenty years is unanimously converging in favor of an important role played by Cultural Participation on protracting the duration of life and on the prevention of major chronic degenerative diseases. A special emphasis is given to an Italian study focusing on the impact of Cultural Participation upon subjective perceptions of well-being on a large sample of Italian residents. This study underlines the relevant role of culture as a determinant of individual psychological well-being, suggesting some innovative public health policies focused upon the human and social developmental role of culture.
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the contribution of Cultural Participation to urban well being a comparative study in bolzano bozen and siracusa italy
Cities, 2016Co-Authors: Pier Luigi Sacco, Enzo Grossi, Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Giovanni Pieretti, Guido FerilliAbstract:Abstract What is the role of culture in contemporary urban life? Can culture function as an urban planning tool for individual and social well-being? Two elements are of special relevance in this regard: Cultural vibrancy in terms of level of initiative in policies, use of facilities and activities, and individual and social propensities towards the Participation in, and consumption of, Cultural activities and goods. This paper takes the recent path of research on the impact of Cultural Participation on the social and economic sustainability of urban processes, with a specific focus on the individual subjective well-being dimension. Two Italian cities, one endowed with a high stock of Cultural facilities, activities, and access (Bolzano/Bozen) and the other with a comparatively much lower stock in all respects (Siracusa), are examined. Comparative analysis suggests that the impact of culture on subjective well-being in a context of high Cultural supply and substantial Cultural Participation is much more relevant with respect to low-endowment and low-Participation cases, thus suggesting the possibility of a culture/well-being positive feedback dynamics leading to urban ‘Cultural poverty traps’. On the basis of these results, we draw some implications for Cultural policy design in urban contexts.
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The contribution of Cultural Participation to urban well-being. A comparative study in Bolzano/Bozen and Siracusa, Italy
Cities, 2016Co-Authors: Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Pier Luigi Sacco, Enzo Grossi, Giovanni Pieretti, Guido FerilliAbstract:Abstract What is the role of culture in contemporary urban life? Can culture function as an urban planning tool for individual and social well-being? Two elements are of special relevance in this regard: Cultural vibrancy in terms of level of initiative in policies, use of facilities and activities, and individual and social propensities towards the Participation in, and consumption of, Cultural activities and goods. This paper takes the recent path of research on the impact of Cultural Participation on the social and economic sustainability of urban processes, with a specific focus on the individual subjective well-being dimension. Two Italian cities, one endowed with a high stock of Cultural facilities, activities, and access (Bolzano/Bozen) and the other with a comparatively much lower stock in all respects (Siracusa), are examined. Comparative analysis suggests that the impact of culture on subjective well-being in a context of high Cultural supply and substantial Cultural Participation is much more relevant with respect to low-endowment and low-Participation cases, thus suggesting the possibility of a culture/well-being positive feedback dynamics leading to urban ‘Cultural poverty traps’. On the basis of these results, we draw some implications for Cultural policy design in urban contexts.
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Cultural Participation, Relational Goods and Individual Subjective Well-Being: Some Empirical Evidence
Review of Economics and Finance, 2014Co-Authors: Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Pier Luigi Sacco, Enzo Grossi, Giovanni Pieretti, Guido FerilliAbstract:This paper focuses on the role of Cultural Participation as a source of individual subjective well-being in terms of the sociability orientation of different Cultural activities. In previous works, we have found a strong association between subjective well-being and Cultural Participation. Here, we want to test to what extent such as association can be ascribed to the fact that Cultural Participation allows individuals to engage in non instrumental forms of social interaction, which are conducive to genuine forms of interpersonal relations. The test is conducted through two different evidence bases: on a survey covering Italian population and focused on the relation between culture and well-being; and an online survey of experts, ranking the 14 Culturally related activities of the previous survey in terms of their sociability orientation. Our findings show that Cultural Participation tends to be oriented preferentially toward relatively sociable activities, thereby contributing to the production of relational goods and social capital.
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Gender-related Effect of Cultural Participation in Psychological Well-being: Indications from the Well-being Project in the Municipality of Milan
Social Indicators Research, 2012Co-Authors: Enzo Grossi, Angelo Compare, Cristina Lonardi, Renata Cerutti, Edward Callus, Mauro NieroAbstract:Gender differences have been observed in the way males and females process cognitive stimuli coming from exposure to works of art and Participation in leisure activities. For this reason, we designed a project to assess this issue, with a cross-sectional study in Milan, on a sample of the population consisting in 1,000 inhabitants. Our objective was to assess how Cultural Participation affects subjective well-being, measured with the Psychological General Well-being Scale, which gives a global index of psychological well-being ranging from 0 (lowest level of well-being) to 110 (highest level of well-being). The survey was conducted with the assistance of Doxa, an Italian pollster company, through telephone interviews, according to the Computer Aided Telephone Interview system. A significant statistical difference in variable distribution between the two genders was found for civil status (more males resulted as being single and more women widowed), income (higher income in males), Cultural Participation (higher in males) and psychological well-being (higher in males). As expected, state of health has the maximum impact on the level of psychological well-being. The increase in the number of concomitant diseases is in fact linearly associated with a progressive increase in psychological distress with average scores of around 60 (very low level of well-being), in the presence of 5 or more concomitant diseases, in both males and females. The impact profile of nine major determinants on subjective well-being resulted to be clearly different in the two genders. Health status dominates in both, but its impact is higher in females than in males. The obtained results remained substantially unchanged also when the two gender groups were matched according to civil status and income level distribution. Leisure activities play an important role in females (second place after health status), while in males they result as being less important (fourth place after health status, civil status and occupation). Education is quite important for females (third place), while it is given the least importance in males. This different profile probably reflects different social and environmental influences on the two genders. The social and psychological implications of these findings are discussed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013
Concetta Castiglione - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cultural Participation and tourism flows: an empirical investigation of Italian provinces
Tourism Economics, 2014Co-Authors: Karol Jan Borowiecki, Concetta CastiglioneAbstract:The importance of Cultural events for attracting tourism has often been posited in research, but rarely tested in relation to non-Cultural activities. This paper investigates the association between Participation in entertainment activities and tourism flows in Italian provinces, and finds that admission to theatre-type activities increases as the number of domestic tourists rises, whereas admission to museums or concerts rises with an increase in foreign tourists. Admissions to exhibitions and shows demonstrate a positive association with both domestic and international tourists, while non-Cultural activities remain statistically insignificant. The results provide empirical support for the existence of a strong relationship between tourism flows and Cultural Participation. The findings also imply that the demand for entertainment varies depending on the origin of the tourist.
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Cultural Participation and Tourism Flows in Italy
2012Co-Authors: Karol Jan Borowiecki, Concetta CastiglioneAbstract:The importance of Cultural events for attracting tourism has been often posited in research, however rarely tested in relation to non-Cultural activities. We investigate the association between Participation in entertainment activities and tourism flows in Italian provinces, and find that admission to theater-type activities increases as the number of domestic tourists goes up, whereas admission to museums or concerts rises with an increase in foreign tourists. Admissions to exhibitions and shows attract both domestic and international tourists, while the role of non-Cultural activities in determining tourism flow is statistically insignificant.The results provide important empirical support for the existence of a strong relationship between tourism flows and Cultural Participation. The findings also imply that the demand for entertainment varies depending on the origin of the tourist. Finally, for the Cultural activities we calculate also the lower-bound of the estimated revenues obtained from tourism.
Angèle Christin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cultural Participation, cohort effects, and higher education (1981-2012)
2016Co-Authors: Angèle Christin, Philippe Coulangeon, Olivier DonnatAbstract:The French and the Americans are often presented as having radically different relations to popular and high culture. Yet no analysis has systematically compared the evolutions of Cultural Participation in the two countries over time. In this paper, we propose a statistical exploration of two nationally representative cross-sectional data sets: the four waves of the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts in the United States (1982-2008) and the Enquêtes sur les Pratiques Culturelles des Français (1981-2008). We argue that in both countries the relationship between Cultural practices and social stratification has changed over time and across generations. In the United States and in France, highbrow Cultural activities and reading practices have declined over time, whereas television viewing has increased. We then focus on the impact of period change and cohort renewal on these evolutions. We show a fairly close proximity of the two countries as to the impact of the social factors of Cultural Participation but a greater prevalence of cohort effects in France and of period effects in the US. France also differs from the US by the mitigated effect of education on Cultural practices observed in the more recent cohorts. These cohorts experienced a massive school expansion, which occurred in France much later than in the US. Finally, there is no indication of a weaker stratifying power of culture in the US than in France. The two countries differ by the extent of generational changes observed in French Cultural habits since the early 80s, which contrasts with the relative stability of the American ones during the same period.
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French and American Cultural Participation
2014Co-Authors: Olivier Donnat, Angèle ChristinAbstract:Le ministere de la Culture et de la Communication francais et le National Endowment of the Arts aux Etats-Unis realisent regulierement une enquete nationale (Pratiques culturelles des Francais et Survey of Public Participation in the Arts) pour suivre l’evolution des comportements des habitants dans le domaine de la culture et des medias.La confrontation des resultats de ces deux enquetes, dont les editions sont, depuis le debut des annees 1980, relativement proches dans le temps, permet une analyse comparative sur pres de trois decennies du niveau de diffusion des pratiques culturelles et du profil de leurs publics respectifs.Au debut des annees 1980, la population americaine, bien que plus telephage, avait un niveau general de Participation culturelle superieur, a l’exception de la lecture de livres. Le profil des publics culturels en termes de sexe, d’âge, de niveau d’etudes et de revenu etait relativement proche de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique.Les evolutions observees dans chaque pays au cours des decennies suivantes sont souvent semblables mais interviennent plus tard en France (augmentation de la consommation de television, baisse de la lecture de livres, progression des pratiques artistiques en amateur). La seule veritable divergence concerne les sorties au cinema, au theâtre et aux spectacles de danse, dont les taux de frequentation ont progresse en France dans les annees 2000, au moment ou ils accusaient un recul marque aux Etats-Unis.Les evolutions relatives au profil des publics sont egalement souvent analogues : feminisation et vieillissement des publics, recul de la Participation des plus diplomes s’observent dans les deux pays, avec toutefois une accentuation des ecarts entre les plus riches et les plus pauvres aux Etats-Unis qu’on n’observe pas en France.
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Gender and Highbrow Cultural Participation in the United States
Poetics, 2012Co-Authors: Angèle ChristinAbstract:The literature on Cultural choice largely focuses on the influence of socioeconomic background upon aesthetic tastes and Cultural consumption. However, empirical analyses consistently report that gender is an essential determinant of highbrow Cultural Participation. In particular, women are considerably and significantly more likely than men to participate in high-status Cultural activities. Using recent data on the United States (Survey of Public Participation in the Arts 2008), this research integrates several explanations of the gender gap in highbrow Cultural Participation. A negative binomial model explores the effect of 1) early socialization in the arts and family background 2) education 3) differential involvement by gender in the labor force; and 4) the influence of marriage, on women's and men's Cultural Participation. A disaggregated analysis by age groups indicates that early socialization in the arts completely accounts for women?s higher Cultural consumption in younger age groups and that education increases men's Participation in the arts more than women?s for oldest respondents. These findings do not support the idea that the gendered division of labor on highbrow culture has disappeared for younger respondents, but delineate instead how gendered patterns of Participation in the arts are mediated by broad transformations in the educational regime in the United States.
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Gender, Early Socialization in the Arts, and Cultural Participation in the United States*
2011Co-Authors: Angèle ChristinAbstract:The literature on Cultural choice largely focuses on the influence of socioeconomic background upon aesthetic tastes and Cultural consumption. However, empirical analyses consistently report that gender is an essential determinant of highbrow Cultural Participation. In particular, women are considerably and significantly more likely than men to participate in high-status Cultural activities. Using recent data on the United States (Survey of Public Participation in the Arts 2008), this research integrates several explanations of the gender gap in highbrow Cultural Participation. A negative binomial model explores the effect of 1) early socialization in the arts and family background 2) education 3) differential involvement by gender in the labor force 4) the influence of marriage, on women’s and men’s Cultural Participation. A disaggregated analysis by age groups indicates that early socialization in the arts completely accounts for women’s higher Cultural consumption in younger age groups and that education increases men’s Participation in the arts more than women’s for oldest respondents. These findings delineate how Participation in the arts might have become a relatively more gender-based than class-based activity for younger cohorts.
Guido Ferilli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the contribution of Cultural Participation to urban well being a comparative study in bolzano bozen and siracusa italy
Cities, 2016Co-Authors: Pier Luigi Sacco, Enzo Grossi, Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Giovanni Pieretti, Guido FerilliAbstract:Abstract What is the role of culture in contemporary urban life? Can culture function as an urban planning tool for individual and social well-being? Two elements are of special relevance in this regard: Cultural vibrancy in terms of level of initiative in policies, use of facilities and activities, and individual and social propensities towards the Participation in, and consumption of, Cultural activities and goods. This paper takes the recent path of research on the impact of Cultural Participation on the social and economic sustainability of urban processes, with a specific focus on the individual subjective well-being dimension. Two Italian cities, one endowed with a high stock of Cultural facilities, activities, and access (Bolzano/Bozen) and the other with a comparatively much lower stock in all respects (Siracusa), are examined. Comparative analysis suggests that the impact of culture on subjective well-being in a context of high Cultural supply and substantial Cultural Participation is much more relevant with respect to low-endowment and low-Participation cases, thus suggesting the possibility of a culture/well-being positive feedback dynamics leading to urban ‘Cultural poverty traps’. On the basis of these results, we draw some implications for Cultural policy design in urban contexts.
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The contribution of Cultural Participation to urban well-being. A comparative study in Bolzano/Bozen and Siracusa, Italy
Cities, 2016Co-Authors: Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Pier Luigi Sacco, Enzo Grossi, Giovanni Pieretti, Guido FerilliAbstract:Abstract What is the role of culture in contemporary urban life? Can culture function as an urban planning tool for individual and social well-being? Two elements are of special relevance in this regard: Cultural vibrancy in terms of level of initiative in policies, use of facilities and activities, and individual and social propensities towards the Participation in, and consumption of, Cultural activities and goods. This paper takes the recent path of research on the impact of Cultural Participation on the social and economic sustainability of urban processes, with a specific focus on the individual subjective well-being dimension. Two Italian cities, one endowed with a high stock of Cultural facilities, activities, and access (Bolzano/Bozen) and the other with a comparatively much lower stock in all respects (Siracusa), are examined. Comparative analysis suggests that the impact of culture on subjective well-being in a context of high Cultural supply and substantial Cultural Participation is much more relevant with respect to low-endowment and low-Participation cases, thus suggesting the possibility of a culture/well-being positive feedback dynamics leading to urban ‘Cultural poverty traps’. On the basis of these results, we draw some implications for Cultural policy design in urban contexts.
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Cultural Participation, Relational Goods and Individual Subjective Well-Being: Some Empirical Evidence
Review of Economics and Finance, 2014Co-Authors: Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Pier Luigi Sacco, Enzo Grossi, Giovanni Pieretti, Guido FerilliAbstract:This paper focuses on the role of Cultural Participation as a source of individual subjective well-being in terms of the sociability orientation of different Cultural activities. In previous works, we have found a strong association between subjective well-being and Cultural Participation. Here, we want to test to what extent such as association can be ascribed to the fact that Cultural Participation allows individuals to engage in non instrumental forms of social interaction, which are conducive to genuine forms of interpersonal relations. The test is conducted through two different evidence bases: on a survey covering Italian population and focused on the relation between culture and well-being; and an online survey of experts, ranking the 14 Culturally related activities of the previous survey in terms of their sociability orientation. Our findings show that Cultural Participation tends to be oriented preferentially toward relatively sociable activities, thereby contributing to the production of relational goods and social capital.
Ineke Nagel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The arts course CKV1 and Cultural Participation in the Netherlands
Poetics, 2010Co-Authors: Ineke Nagel, M.l. Damen, Folkert HaanstraAbstract:In 1999, the arts course CKV1 (in Dutch) was introduced at middle and higher levels of secondary education in the Netherlands. CKV1, which can be translated as ‘Cultural and Artistic Education’, aims to encourage Cultural Participation among adolescents by compelling them to attend theatre performances, concerts, museums, exhibitions, etc. This article examines whether enrolment in the course affects Cultural Participation and attitudes towards the arts 2–6 years after the students have completed the course. Data were used on three cohorts of secondary school students who took part in a classroom interview at the age of 14– 17, and who participated in follow-up surveys 2, 4 and 6 years later. The eldest cohort was interviewed just before CKV1 was introduced to the secondary school curriculum and the two youngest cohorts were interviewed once the course was underway. Furthermore, being a panel study, the dataset contains observations of Cultural Participation before, during and after enrolment in CKV1. The results demonstrate that CKV1 neither affects the students’ Cultural Participation nor their attitude towards the arts 2–6 years after they have completed the course. The absence of effects applies equally to students who have Culturally active and Culturally non-active parents. # 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Short-Term Effects of Compulsory Multidisciplinary Secondary School Arts Education on Cultural Participation in the Netherlands
Studies in Art Education, 2010Co-Authors: M.l. Damen, Ineke Nagel, Folkert HaanstraAbstract:In 1999, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science introduced a new kind of compulsory arts education in secondary school aimed at stimulating Cultural Participation among Dutch youth. ...
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Cultural Participation Between the Ages of 14 and 24: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Mobility?
European Sociological Review, 2009Co-Authors: Ineke NagelAbstract:By contrasting between models of Cultural reproduction and Cultural mobility, this article aims to offer more insight into the causes of changes in Cultural Participation due to family influence and developments in the educational career. Longitudinal data were used on 2547 adolescents who took part in a classroom survey at age 14-16, and who were since then interviewed two to five times, on average every 2 years. Parents' Cultural Participation was found to be more important than education and remained important in the period from adolescence to young adulthood. Although less important than the family influences, education is associated with large differences in Cultural Participation. These differences are largely additional to the differences according to parents' Cultural Participation. Less than half of the differences according to educational level actually emerge during the educational career. The other differences already exist in adolescence, before the educational career is completed. The effects of parents' Cultural Participation and education operate independently, except for one educational category - gymnasium students in whom the effect of parents' Cultural Participation is stronger than for others. It is concluded that processes of Cultural reproduction and Cultural mobility both play a role in Cultural Participation. © The Author 2009.
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Effects of art education in secondary schools on Cultural Participation in later life
Journal of Art & Design Education, 1997Co-Authors: Ineke Nagel, Harry B. G. Ganzeboom, Folkert Haanstra, Wil OudAbstract:This paper reports on the effects of art education in secondary schools on the Cultural Participation of Dutch students 10–20 years after leaving school. We draw our conclusion from a sample survey among 1034 students from 31 schools, half of whom took art as a subject of examination. Art examination subjects were more often chosen by students who were already active in the arts, come from Culturally active families, and who more often chose languages and other humanities in their examination package. However, in spite of their affiliation with art prior to choosing an examination package, training in the arts during secondary school was found to add to their Participation in Cultural activities ten to twenty years later. The effects are restricted to the same art discipline as the art lessons attended, and apply to both receptive [enjoying art of artists] and productive [producing art] Cultural Participation.