Cultural Capital, Family and Sports: Intergenerational reproduction of leisure sports in context of high-brow culture activities
Abstrakt
Empirical studies of social differentiation of leisure sports participation show its profound similarities with culture activities (e. g. Stempel 2005, Warde 2006).
Intergenerational transmission of leisure patterns between parents and children (see e. g. Engström 2008) could be understood as a key mechanism capable of uncovering the nature of this relationship.
In this context, a question arises whether the connection between sports and high-brow cultural participation stems from an actual position in a social space (i. e. Bourdieu’s class homology), from class-based habitus acquired during the childhood (Bourdieu 1984) or is the result of a reproduction of autonomous family leisure cultures (see Birchwood 2008).
A structural equation model will be applied on a recent representative survey data of the adult Czech population (dataset TSSM 2009). Different models of intergenerational transmission of sports participation will be assessed in the context of respondent’s past and present social position and the participation in high-brow cultural activities.
The study will discuss the role of the family milieu in the relation of sports and culture activities.