Brook, O., Miles, A., O’Brien, D. et al. (1 more author) (2023) Social mobility and ‘openness’ in creative occupations since the 1970s. Sociology, 57 (4). pp. 789-810. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
Social mobility in the cultural sector is currently an important issue in government policy and public discussion, associated with perceptions of a collapse in numbers of working-class origin individuals becoming artists, actors, musicians and authors. The question of who works in creative occupations has also attracted significant sociological attention. To date, however, there have been no empirically grounded studies into the changing social composition of such occupations. This article uses the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study to show that, while those from more privileged social backgrounds have long dominated, there has been no change in the relative class mobility chances of gaining access to creative work. Instead, we must turn to the pattern of absolute mobility into this sector in order to understand claims that it is experiencing a ‘mobility crisis’.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | cultural and creative industries; cultural policy; Longitudinal Study; social class; social mobility |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AH/P013155/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2022 16:04 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2023 10:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/00380385221129953 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:194521 |