Constructing a Cultural Map of Serbia
Constructing a Cultural Map of Serbia

Author(s): Predrag Cvetičanin, Jasmina Nedeljković, Nemanja Krstić
Subject(s): Anthropology, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Essay
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Summary/Abstract: In this article our aim is to identify the main dimensions of the cultural map of Serbia and explore the relationship between social and cultural stratification in Serbia. To accomplish this we have relied on data from two surveys “Cultural Needs, Habits and Taste of Citizens of Serbia and Macedonia” (2005) and “Cultural Practices of Citizens of Serbia” (2010). Both were based on a national proportional stratified random sample with faceto- face interviews. In the first study 1364 respondents were interviewed (the sample was made of 1485 respondents, hence the realization percentage was 91,9%). In the second study out of 1600 sampled respondents, 1490 were interviewed (93,1% of realization). The article first reconstructs, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), the cultural map of Serbia from 2005. The basic axis which structure this field of cultural practices and types of cultural practices which are shaped by the influence of these “forces” are identified. Then supplementary socio-demographic variables (education, age, income, wealth, occupation) are projected onto this map, which makes possible the consideration of the interrelatedness of cultural practices and social factors. In the next section, the results of these same analyses of data from the 2010 survey are presented. The final section compares the cultural maps of Serbia from 2005 and 2010 and the relations between cultural and social factors in them. We conclude by pointing to specificities of the field of cultural practices in Serbia and deviations from Bourdieu’s model of homology between the social and cultural order.

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