Year: 2017
Type: report
Abstract: How young people engage with culture is usually examined by looking at how often they participate in certain arts activities or attend arts events.For example, 'Culture statistics' are published by the Northern Ireland Department for Communities (DfC), giving headline figures on rates of young people's participation in sport, engagement with the arts and attendance at arts events, the use of public libraries, museums and science centres (DfC, 2017).However, as responses to a recent Arts and Culture Strategy Consultation by the former Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure 1 (DCAL, 2016) indicate, there is no consensus on a single definition of arts and culture.It is clear that culture is understood and expressed in many ways which can reflect various factors, including but not only, age, ethnicity, religion, class, sexuality. Key points• The majority of young people said religious beliefs and practice (58%) and language spoken (57%) were the ways in which they felt they expressed their culture.• Young people found lack of time to be the single most prohibitive factor to being more involved in activities (69%).• How young people interpret culture, and what they believe constitutes cultural activity, is hugely complex and multi-layered.• Activities that were associated with family and societal tradition are more likely to be identified as cultural activities.
Authors: Grace Kelly, Martina McKnight
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2777494091