YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

286 ferences especially in cultural consumption could be related to the fact that large cities offer more opportunities to visit cultural events and sites, inter alia due to better infrastructure (e.g. more cinemas, theatres), which is more accessible to young people (e.g. good transportation options). Figure 8.3: Young people’s cultural participation by type of settlement. Village/rural area Middle-sized city Large city 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 Visiting cultural sites Visiting cinema/theatre/ concerts Reading 2.03 2.24 3.09 2.04 2.19 2.27 2.44 3.21 3.44 0 Source: Mladina 2020. Furthermore, cultural participation is significantly associatedwith young people’s educational level and their cultural capital. Those with higher education tend to read (r = 0.18; p < 0.01) and visit cultural sites more fre- quently (r = 0.15; p < 0.01), while cultural capital shows a positive correla- tion with all types of cultural participation. Thus young people with higher cultural capital more frequently participate actively in creative ac- tivities (r = 0.21; p < 0.01), read (r = 0.19; p < 0.01), visit cultural sites (r = 0.14; p < 0.01), and visit the cinema/theatre/concerts (r = 0.09; p < 0.01) and write (r = 0.08; p < 0.01). These findings confirm the importance of the so-called “cultural socialization” (Bourdieu, 1986; Holden, 2006; Nagel, 2010) that primarily takes place in school and in young people’s families. Through their school curriculum, as well as with interaction