YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Creativity and culture  283 tionalised and objectified cultural capital. 2 The third dimension, i.e. em- bodied cultural capital, is usually related to cultural participation (e.g. reading books, writing etc.), which will be analysed separately in the next subchapter and is therefore not a part of our measure of cultural capital. Furthermore, the results of our study confirm the general importance of young people’s cultural capital in their interest in arts and culture. High- er interest is related to higher cultural capital (r = 0.13; p < 0.01) 3 and to higher participation (i.e. embodied cultural capital) in all cultural and arts activities, both in typical (live) form as well as online (both is pre- sented more in detail in the following subchapters). 8.2  PARTICIPATION IN CREATIVE AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES Cultural participation includes various cultural activities, such as visit- ing cultural events or institutions (e.g. cinemas, theatres, concerts, muse- ums), one’s active participation cultural pursuits (e.g. reading, writing, engagement with music, theatre), as well as being included in various cultural organizations (European Commission, 2015; Eurobarometer 455, 2018). These diverse activities are usually classified into two distinctive forms of cultural participation, that is cultural engagement (e.g. actively taking part in cultural activities or arts) and cultural consumption (e.g. shopping cultural goods, visiting cultural events and institutions). Figure 8.2 presents trends of young people’s cultural participation in various activities over the last twenty years. Compared to 2010, in 2020 young people participated more frequently in all three forms of cultural engagement , i.e. in reading, engagement with music, dancing, theatre and arts, and in writing in the forms of diaries, poems, and letters. On the other hand, cultural consumption , i.e. visiting cinemas, theatres, or concerts, has been declining over the last 20 years. Although the decline in 2020 only confirms the continuation of the trend that started in 2010, it must be noted that the study in 2020 was conducted during strict