Fancourt Daisy, Warran Katey
Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, England, UK.
School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Jul 5;9:356. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21625.1. eCollection 2024.
Arts and cultural engagement (ACEng) is ubiquitous across every human culture since palaeolithic times, but in contemporary society, ACEng is unevenly distributed, demographically, socio-economically, geographically and politically. But what are the "determinants" of ACEng (i.e., the facilitators or barriers to people's engagement) and how can they be optimised? Despite a large body of theory and evidence on individual determinants, this work has largely occurred in disciplinary silos, which has led variously to contrasting discourses and approaches, criticism, and inconsistent findings. What we lack is a rigorous comprehensive understanding of these determinants (both those already theorised and those that have been little recognised as determinants to date) that goes beyond descriptively showing inequalities, instead explaining why these inequalities exist and how they can be overcome. This paper explores the currently recognised determinants of ACEng, and existing theoretical approaches to these determinants.
Drawing on the theoretical bases of ecological systems theory, ecosocial theory and complex adaptive systems science, we conducted a review and iterative theorising process.
We propose a new theoretical framework of the determinants of arts and cultural engagement (RADIANCE) developed through cross-disciplinary literature reviewing, domain mapping, and consensus building.
Overall, we identified 35 different factors that can act as determinants of ACEng across micro, meso, exo, macro and chrono levels. We broadly categorised these as social (i.e. a primary feature being the interaction of people), tangible (i.e. a primary feature involving physical assets or resources or the production of physical assets), and intangible (i.e. constructs that do not have a primary physical basis but instead have a virtual or imaginary basis). The relevance and implications of this framework for broader research, policy, and practice and case studies of it in use are presented.
自旧石器时代以来,艺术与文化参与(ACEng)在每一种人类文化中都普遍存在,但在当代社会,ACEng在人口统计学、社会经济、地理和政治方面的分布并不均衡。那么,ACEng的“决定因素”(即人们参与的促进因素或障碍)是什么,又如何对其进行优化呢?尽管有大量关于个体决定因素的理论和证据,但这项工作大多是在学科孤岛中进行的,这导致了各种相互矛盾的论述和方法、批评以及不一致的研究结果。我们所缺乏的是对这些决定因素(包括那些已经形成理论的和那些迄今为止很少被视为决定因素的)进行严格的全面理解,这种理解不仅仅是描述性地展示不平等现象,而是要解释这些不平等现象为何存在以及如何克服它们。本文探讨了目前公认的ACEng的决定因素,以及针对这些决定因素的现有理论方法。
借鉴生态系统理论、生态社会理论和复杂适应系统科学的理论基础,我们进行了一次综述和迭代理论构建过程。
我们通过跨学科文献综述、领域映射和共识构建,提出了一个关于艺术与文化参与决定因素的新理论框架(RADIANCE)。
总体而言,我们确定了35个不同的因素,这些因素可以在微观、中观、外部、宏观和时间层面上作为ACEng的决定因素。我们大致将这些因素分为社会因素(即主要特征是人与人之间的互动)、有形因素(即主要特征涉及物质资产或资源或物质资产的生产)和无形因素(即没有主要物质基础而是具有虚拟或想象基础的结构)。本文还介绍了该框架在更广泛的研究、政策和实践中的相关性和意义,以及其实际应用的案例研究。