Why are middle-class people more likely to play music, paint and act?
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Press release from the British Sociological Association.
The reason why middle-class people are more likely to play music, paint and act has been revealed in a major new study.
Research involving 78,000 people found that it was not wealth or social status that were strongly linked to people taking part in arts activities as amateurs or professionals.
Instead, it was the level of education that lay behind arts participation, the study by Dr Aaron Reeves, a sociologist at the University of Oxfo...
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