From the Reading Public and Individual Readers Towards a Sociology of Reading Milieus
Keywords:
history of reading, sociology of reading, readers, social class, reading culture, reading habits, Sinus milieusAbstract
In spite of studies on the external history of reading and on individual readers we know very little about the reading habits of groups of readers. Bourdieu has provided a model for the correlation of class and taste but his model is rather crude compared with contemporary studies based on “Sinus milieus”. Jost Schneider reconstructs, for instance, the taste of the lower middle class which is characterized by stasis, of the liberal-technocrat milieu which is oriented toward the formal experiments of the “classical” avant-garde and the hedonistic milieu which is searching for new styles and trends. Schneider’s results still await corroboration by empirical data.References
Bachleitner, Norbert. »Das Ende des ‘Königs aller deutschen Leihbibliotheken’«. Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 11 (1986): 115–148.
Bourdieu, Pierre. La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement. Pariz: Minuit, 1979.
Christmann, Ursula, in Norbert Groeben. »Psychologie des Lesens«. Handbuch Lesen. Ur. Bodo Franzmann idr. München: Saur, 1999. 145–223.
Darnton, Robert. »First Steps Toward a History of Reading«. Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History. New York: Norton, 1990. 154–187.
– – –. »Bralci odgovarjajo Rousseauju: ponaredek romantične rahločutnosti«. Darnton, Veliki pokol mačk in druge epizode francoske kulturne zgodovine. Prev. Polona Poberžnik. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2005. 251–304.
Schenda, Rudolf. Volk ohne Buch: Studien zur Sozialgeschichte der populären Lesestoffe 1770–1910. Frankfurt ob Majni: Klostermann, 1970.
Schneider, Jost. Sozialgeschichte des Lesens: Zur historischen Entwicklung und sozialen Differenzierung der literarischen Kommunikation in Deutschland. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004.
Schücking, Levin L. Soziologie der literarischen Geschmacksbildung. Bern in München: Francke, 1961 (prva izd. 1923).
Slike okolij Sinus. Dostopno na: http://www.google.at/images?hl=de&biw=1020&bih=614&rlz=1R2GGLL_de&q=sinus+milieus+2009&revid=1890806054&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=hd8oTefeNYSl8QO_sbSFAw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQsAQwAg (7. april 2011).
