To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We demonstrate in the book that there’s an overwhelming belief in the power of culture: culture can change lives. The response from the sector to previous work uncovering social class inequalities had been ‘what a shame because it didn’t used to be like that in the ‘70s, when anybody could be creative – what went wrong? Book review: Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries by Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor, Manchester University Press (2020).

Your book also suggests that the inequalities are ‘intersectional’, involving social class, gender and ethnic background. This was despite the claims by parts of the film industry, and by government policy, that film is open to any and all who are talented. He has written extensively on the sociology of culture, including on urban regeneration, cultural consumption, cultural policy, and creative industries. When someone on Twitter started a debate about our employment conditions, our team leader – very committed to ‘diversity’ – was more concerned with the reputation of the institution than with our financial well-being.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Across the world we can see lockdown and reopening presenting significant challenges to those parts of the cultural sector dependent on visitors and on audiences. These include the persistent under-representation of those from working class backgrounds within the cultural workforce, and the dominance of well-educated, high-status middle classes within arts audiences.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. For Art Prints please allow 5 working days for unframed prints and 15 working days for framed prints/ stretched canvas.

Talking about their own careers, they obscure their own privileges, using the ‘gentlemanly motifs’ of luck and modesty. Like the rest of our participants we’ve given her a pseudonym, so she could be honest and open in the interview. It is the first book to examine British vaccination policy across the post-war period and covers a range of vaccines, providing valuable context and insight for those interested in historical or present-day public health policy debates. Since defining culture is closely related to inequalities, as academics we should not reproduce these distinctions like the survey does.However, the relation between autonomy and capitalist cultural production deserves more attention across social backgrounds. Which stories get told is a result of how cultural production is organised’ (Brook, O’Brien and Taylor, 2020: 14). The ‘poshness’ of specific cultural occupations, the absence of those from working class origins, is not a new thing. The last point is to understand how the interactions between institutions and workers produce inequalities. The activities which skew most heavily towards people in the most privileged positions also tend to be the ones which are heavily subsidised by organisations like the Arts Council.