![]() Although numerous studies have confirmed social differentiation in highbrow cultural consumption, cross-national research on social inequality in the cultural domain is still scarce. Participation in highbrow culture for individuals is often recognized as an important but unequally distributed asset. Lastly, I find that the social prestige perceived through consuming highbrow culture becomes an important predictor of who consumes highbrow culture. Furthermore, I show that highbrow cultural consumption is affected by specific country characteristics. Using Eurobarometer (2007) data, I show that taste publics have distinct highbrow cultural consumption scores and the association between taste publics and highbrow cultural consumption varies across Europe. I further test the extent to which the association between taste publics and highbrow cultural consumption is moderated by these country characteristics. I examine the extent to which taste publics and specific country characteristics such as a country’s population characteristics, its wealth, and its level of cultural funding affect highbrow cultural consumption across European countries. I contribute to the existing body of knowledge by focusing on taste publics-groups of individuals distinguished by their levels of economic and cultural capital-rather than separately dealing with education and family affluence. Although numerous studies have confirmed this association by using education and income as proxies of cultural and economic capital in highbrow cultural consumption at the individual level, cross-national comparisons remain scarce. The association between class and culture as an important way to understand the determinants of individual tastes is well-known.
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