The Effects of Personality, Age, and Social Status

Question 1

What did Cleridou & Furnham (2014) find in terms of art, architecture, and music?

Answer 1

Sophisticated music and art was correlated with openness (replicated previous findings)

Intense music and art was negatively correlated with conscientiousness and positively correlated with openness

Question 2

What may people think is a limitation of Cleridou & Furnham’s (2014) categories in terms of art, architecture, and music?

Answer 2

Can art, architecure, and music all come under the same labels?

E.g., can architecture be mellow and unpretentious as well as music?

Question 3

What is a broad predictor of cultural taste?

Answer 3

Openness

Question 4

What is a peak time for consolidating taste?

Answer 4

Age 26

Question 5

What is a critical period for taste formation?

Answer 5

Adolescence

Question 6

Can social conformity and peer influence affect musical taste?

Answer 6

Yes, but less so in adulthood (particularly for genre)

Question 7

What factors can affect musical taste?

Answer 7

Social factors

Peer influence

Social class

Cultural factors

Question 8

What hierarchical status categories are there in relation to music, literature, art etc.

Answer 8

Highbrow

Middlebrow

Lowbrow

Question 9

What does highbrow refer to?

Answer 9

Large brain size

Large forehead

High forehead

Question 10

What is habitus?

Answer 10

Cultural environment that you are often immersed in from birth

Expectations surrounding you and your siblings/family etc.

Question 11

Who put forward the issue of habitus in terms of musical taste?

Answer 11

Bourdieu

Question 12

How can habitus affect your musical taste?

Answer 12

Your families interest in music (e.g., if your parents play musical instruments etc.)

Inherited level of skill/ability

Question 13

What do you accumulate as you become more knowledge about music?

Answer 13

Cultural capital

Question 14

How can cultural capital be important or useful in society?

Answer 14

Can talk about music and inform others

Can create social bonds

Question 15

Is cultural capital the same as economic capital?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

How can social influences affect one’s music taste?

Answer 16

Might share the same social class as your mate that predisposes you to like certain types of music more than others

Social class can determine people’s taste of music, as can external factors outside of social relationships.