Social mobilities and cultural inequalities

Why do cultural producers discriminate when they think they are open to novelty? Why is it so difficult for people of colour or lower class people to enter the cultural industries? And how can we study such processes of exclusion in the cultural industry when people are not aware of them and so adamantly reject that they discriminate? Dr Dave O'Brien (University of Edinburgh) and dr. Jennifer Lena (Columbia University) discuss these and other topics related to the inequality of cultural production in this engaging session, based on the following readings: Brook, O., O’Brien, D. and Taylor, M. (2020) Culture is bad for you: Inequality in the cultural and creative industries Manchester: Manchester University Press, Chapters 2 and 8. Lena, Jennifer (2019). Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapters 2 and 7. Koppman, Sharon (2016). Different Like Me: Why Cultural Omnivores Get Creative Jobs. Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(2): 291–33 Childress, Clayton and Nault, Jean-Francois (2019). Encultured Biases: The Role of Products in Pathways to Inequality. American Sociological Review 84(1): 115-141. Presentation: dr. Dave O'Brien & dr. Jennifer Lena Editing: Luuc Brans & Giselinde Kuipers Intro and outro tune by professor Timothy J. Dowd.