ABSTRACT This article highlights the need for greater understanding of the role that historical, socio-cultural and political context play in shaping perceptions of culture and cultural value. Findings draw on the annual attitudinal survey of 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland, Young Life and Times (2016), and four follow-up focus group discussions. Results complement existing cultural participation research, which relates forms of engagement with intersectional factors: age, location of residence, gender and income. Reflecting, to some degree, the specificities of the study’s location in Northern Ireland, we also found that cultural participation and understandings of what counts as culture have strong connections to history, place, religion, tradition and family. Furthermore, while participants placed a high level of personal importance on the informal activities in which they engage daily, those activities associated with tradition and family were perceived as having higher cultural importance.

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探索年轻人对文化的理解：来自北爱尔兰的一项研究

摘要 本文强调需要更好地理解历史、社会文化和政治背景在塑造文化和文化价值观念中所起的作用。调查结果借鉴了对北爱尔兰 16 岁青少年的年度态度调查、Young Life and Times（2016 年）以及四次后续焦点小组讨论。结果补充了现有的文化参与研究，该研究将参与形式与交叉因素联系起来：年龄、居住地、性别和收入。在某种程度上反映了研究地点在北爱尔兰的特殊性，我们还发现文化参与和对文化的理解与历史、地方、宗教、传统和家庭有着密切的联系。此外，