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This concluding chapter locates the analysis of cultural capital in relation to public policy in Ireland. It traces the usefulness of Bourdieu’s cultural capital in highlighting inequality and power in the cultural field in Dublin, Ireland. This chapter emphasises the need to “reorder knowledge” around “particular types of activity and inactivity” and the importance of recognising that “not taking part in highbrow cultural activities is the norm” (Miles & Sullivan, Cultural Trends, 21(4), 311, 2012). If arts and culture really are at the heart of Irish society then we need to understand this more deeply, more expansively and particularly, sociologically. This means moving beyond arts audience research into a more informed understanding of Irish cultural participation and taste and the role creative culture holds in individuals’ lives to consider how this informs our understanding of the structuring of Irish society. It also illustrates the need for government and polity to develop new measures, shift definitions and develop a greater understanding of cultural participation and taste in Ireland that is more specific to generations, class and geographies, emphasising the need for future research to embrace more diverse methodological approaches as well as a more holistic consideration of cultural participation and taste.
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McCall Magan, K. (2022). Policy Implications and Recommendations. In: Cultural Participation. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Participation . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18755-1_7
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