Impact of place on museum participation |
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| Authors: | Paul Widdop |
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| Institution: | Institute for Social Change, School of Social Sciences , University of Manchester , United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the impact of place on museum participation in England. For the first time in the cultural field, we use a multilevel logistic model to examine whether place matters after accounting for individual characteristics and area level compositional factors. Our findings show that the traditional social order remains intact, although other social cleavages have become important, and that significant variation exists in museum participation simultaneously at both the neighbourhood and local authority district spatial scales. We conclude by arguing that future research into cultural consumption patterns must take account of the fact that individuals reside in different places. That individuals cluster in space, interact in these places and spaces, and that environmental forces impact on museum participation. Put simply, both theoretically and empirically, studies of cultural behaviour should take account of place, because place matters. |
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| Keywords: | place museum participation stratification multilevel modelling |
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