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Globalization, World Culture and the Sociology of Taste: Patterns of Cultural Choice in Cross-National Perspective Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation Authors Lizardo, Omar Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 27/09/2021 11:28:29 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193871 1 GLOBALIZATION, WORLD CULTURE AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF TASTE: PATTERNS OF CULTURAL CHOICE IN CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE By Omar Lizardo _________________________ A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For The Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College University of Arizona 2006 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE As members of the Dissertation Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Omar Lizardo entitled Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy _______________________________________________________________________ Date: 08/18/06 Ronald L. Breiger _______________________________________________________________________ Date: 08/18/06 Kieran Healy _______________________________________________________________________ Date: 08/18/06 Erin Leahey Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent upon the candidate’s submission of the final copies of the dissertation to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared under my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement. ________________________________________________ Date: 08/18/06 Dissertation Director: Ronald L. Breiger 3 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an advanced degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, provided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in his or her judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED: Omar Lizardo 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A very early draft of chapter of the last section of chapter two and the empirical analyses in chapter four was written in the spring of 2003 and presented at the University of Arizona graduate student culture research group where I benefited comments and criticisms of the participants especially John Sonnett, Kate O’Neil, Jeff Larson, Jessica Collett and Jason Rosow. This material was later published as an article in Poetics (Lizardo 2005), with Paul DiMaggio providing detailed comments and criticisms, not all of which I was able to follow, but which were of great help in finding a more appropriate framing. I would like also like to acknowledge Kees van Rees and the anonymous Poetics readers whose suggestions greatly improved the paper. A previous version of chapter five was presented at seminars at the University of Notre Dame, the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, Princeton University, The University of Michigan, The University of Wisconsin, New York University and the University of California at Irvine, where I benefited from the helpful feedback offered by various participants. I would like to especially thank Ron Breiger, Al Bergesen, Kieran Healy, Erin Leahey, Joe Galakiewicz, Victoria Bonnell, Mark Chaves, Paul DiMaggio, Peter Evans, Robert Fishman, Marion Fourcades, Michael Kennedy, John Levi- Martin, David Meyer, Erik Olin Wright, Dylan Riley and Loic Wacquant, whose suggestions and criticisms greatly improved the chapter. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ................................................................................................................. 9 LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................. 11 LIST OF EQUATIONS ........................................................................................................................ 15 ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................................. 16 1. GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW .................. 18 1.1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 18 1.2. Culture and Globalization: contemporary debates .................................................... 21 1.2.1. The Media Imperialism Approach .................................................................... 26 1.2.2. Globalization as “Glocalization” ....................................................................... 31 1.2.3. World Culture, Globalization and The State ................................................... 37 1.3. Empirical and Theoretical Directions ......................................................................... 47 2. BEYOND MEDIA IMPERIALISM AND CULTURAL CAPITAL THEORY: ALTERNATIVE THEORETICAL APPROACHES ..................................................................... 52 2.1. Globalization and Culture: A Sociological Approach .............................................. 52 2.2. Media Imperialism as Mass Culture Theory ............................................................... 54 2.3. What Is Culture Good For? A Sociostructural Approach ...................................... 57 2.4. Globalization and the Sociostructural Approach ...................................................... 63 2.5. The Cultural Capital Paradigm ..................................................................................... 74 2.6. The Institutional Model of the Actor ......................................................................... 79 2.7. The Cultural Omnivore and the Expansion of Personhood: Connecting Cultural Capital Theory and Institutional Theory .............................................................................. 86 2.8. Chapter Summary ........................................................................................................... 90 3. GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ......... 93 3.1. Abstract ............................................................................................................................ 93 3.2. Examining Cross-National Patterns of Culture Consumption and Production ... 93 3.2.1. Cross-National Patterns of Musical Consumption ......................................... 94 3.2.2. The Global Film Consumption Field ............................................................. 102 3.2.3. Global Film Culture and Domestic Film Production ................................... 106 TABLE OF CONTENTS-Continued 6 3.2.4. The Structure of the International Film Consumption Field ...................... 112 3.2.5. International Trade In Cultural Products ....................................................... 124 3.3. Chapter Summary ......................................................................................................... 133 4. IS OMNIVORE TASTE A COMPONENT OF WORLD CULTURE? EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN .............................................................................................................. 135 4.1. Abstract .......................................................................................................................... 135 4.2. Cultural Taste and World Culture .............................................................................. 136 4.3. World Culture And Cultural Dislikes ........................................................................ 137 4.4. World Culture And Traditional Predictors Of (Multi)Cultural Capital ................ 139 4.5. Data And Measures ...................................................................................................... 140 4.6. Dependent Variables .................................................................................................... 141 4.6.1. Omnivore Culture Consumption. ................................................................... 141 4.6.2. Number Of Cultural Dislikes .......................................................................... 142 4.6.3. Subjective Citizenship........................................................................................ 142 4.6.4. Class And Status Indicators .............................................................................. 144 4.6.5. Post-Fordist Identity Variables ......................................................................... 145 4.6.6. Demographic And Structural Variables .......................................................... 146 4.7. Results ...........................................................................................................................
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