In recent decades, sociologists have generally avoided explicitly discussing the role of
culture in processes of social inequality. We argue that the prevailing disciplinary theory of …

What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender,
racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when …

There is currently widespread concern that access to, and success within, the British acting
profession is increasingly dominated by those from privileged class origins. This article …

The articles in this special issue present some of the early findings of Understanding
Everyday Participation–Articulating Cultural Values (UEP), a five-year large grant project …

Inequality has become essential to understanding contemporary society and is at the
forefront of media, political and practice discussions of the future of the arts, particularly in …

This article looks at the degree to which spatial inequalities reinforce other forms of social
inequality in cultural labor markets. It does so using the example of London, an …

The attitudes and values of cultural and creative workers are an important element of
explaining current academic interest in inequality and culture. To date, quantitative …

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the
challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious …

This exploratory study identifies that more can be understood about how accountability
operates within an increasingly complex non‐profit environment by applying stakeholder …

This article draws on 38 in-depth interviews with British actors to explore the operation of
typecasting. First, we argue that typecasting acts as the key mechanism through which the …