Mieszkańcy miasta w polu społecznym. Wzory uczestnictwa w kulturze, sieci społeczne i struktura klasowa

• Authors: Michał Cebula

Title variants

EN

Urban Dwellers in the Social Field: Patterns of Participation in Culture, Social Networks, and the Class Structure

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

One of the key issues in contemporary urban studies is to consider the city from the perspective of culture and consumption, which are treated as new drivers of urban development and economic prosperity, the essence of urban ways of life, and arenas for the implementation of urban policies. In a consumer society, cities become important nodes where collective and individual consumption takes place on a massive scale. The urban system organizes capabilities and provides the resources for consumption, thus facilitating various kinds of lifestyles. As a result, the urban space operates as an arena of competition, where different consumer orientations and social categories strive physically and symbolically to occupy ground, produce meanings, and create belonging in the spaces and places that constitute the city. In applying Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of a “social field,” the aim of the article is to show how the space of social positions corresponds to the space of cultural practices. Drawing on the study of cultural and leisure activities in Wrocław, four general categories of urban residents are revealed and characterized by their distinct positions in different dimensions of the social space. The analysis also points to social capital (social networks) as an efficient new principle of cultural differentiation. The paper closes with the author’s concluding remarks and guidelines for further research.

Keywords

PL

studia miejskie; style życia; konsumpcja; pole społeczne; klasy społeczne; kapitał społeczny; sieci społeczne

EN

urban studies; lifestyles; consumption; social field; social classes; social capital; social networks

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 109-140

Dates

published

2019-09-27

Contributors

author

Michał Cebula

Identifiers

DOI

10.35757/KiS.2019.63.3.7