Class and social differentiation in Oceania

The rise of cognitive anthropology has recently stimulated a growing interest in intercultural variation. Separate social groups and strata endowed with various ranks and statuses already appeared at the dawn of history when the socioeconomic classes were developing. Hence that was also the time when various distinct social subcultures were emerging. Some Soviet scholars conceptually divide culture in two related ways. The first is determined by the principle which claims that each cultural form includes both productive and reproductive activities (technic-technological aspects) and the objectivized results of such activities. The second one has to do with various real cultural forms: production culture, consumption culture, interaction culture (or etiquette), socionormative culture, physical culture, artistic culture and so on. It seems quite evident that the emerging social differentiation affected distinct forms of ethnic culture rather differently. In order to understand this process, an extensive survey of the ethnic cultures of New Guinea, Melanesia and Polynesia has been conducted. The implication of this analysis is that it is necessary to correct some points in the methodology of Melanesian and Polynesian ethnic culture studies, because evidence of ordinary folk culture is inappropriate for the description of elite culture, and vice versa. The marshalled data put the investigation of the social differentiation process in a new perspective, particularly concerning the interpretation of prehistoric cultural frontiers.

Wine Quality Prediction Using Machine Learning

Nowadays people are living a luxurious lifestyle, wine has become a part of one's culture. consumption of wine is very common throughout the world so its quality is very important. hence its important to analyse wine quality quality of the wines are usually checked by humans through tasting but it has other physicochemical attributes which affects the taste but the process is slow hence machine learning methods can be used for the same. dataset is taken and feature selection is done using pca feature selection and then accuracy is find using SVM, backpropagation neural network and Random forest algorithm to find which model fits best and gives greater accuracy. Keywords: Data Extraction, PCA, SVM,BP neural network, Randomforest

Culture, Consumption and Economics of Creativity: Philosophical, Sociological and Communicative Aspects

The article gives a review of the scientific conference ‘Culture, Consumption and Economics of Creativity: Philosophical, Sociological and Communicative Aspects’ held at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The text represents the course of the conference, the main thoughts of speakers, and some moments of discussion. Main topics analysed by the speakers of the conference were the following: consumption and creative society, consumer culture, creative industries and economics of creativity, social partnership in creative clusters, relationship between politics and culture, dialectics of culture and consumption, relationship between culture and economy, contradictions between creativity and economic sustainability; relations between capitalism, rationality and secularization; quarantgressions of frontiers of public and private, culture of consumption under conditions of pandemic coronavirus, the consumption of virtual culture and other.

Film and Culture Consumption of Mass Media: A Case Study of Urban Communities in Indonesia

Urban society is a society that always tries to improve its quality of life and is open to receiving influences from outside, especially those from the media. The media and the use of information technology in all fields significantly increases the quality of people’s lives. Film as a part of media can reach various groups, in terms of age, education, socio-economic status, cultural background, and religion. Film becomes a strategic media for transforming ideas. It is one of the commodification products that is popular among the people. It is important to monitor the culture of media consumption in urban society from the films. This study aimed at finding out how far films can affect human life. The films that were sampled were two Indonesian films. The problem was solved using questionnaires. The sample community was the community living in the city of Jakarta. The results of the study showed that the majority of respondents (80%) stated that they were watching films not just for entertainment but also to gain insight. Films are produced not only for profit orientation but can also be used for educational purposes. Keywords: culture of mass media consumption, urban society, films

Is Openness in Taste Directly Associated with Tolerance? Exploring a Relationship between Openness in Taste in Leisure Consumption and Attitudes toward Immigrants

Openness in taste—presented in this study as the “backbone” of cultural omnivorousness—represents a standard of sophistication typical of cosmopolitan societies in accordance with the inclusive standards of cultural omnivorousness. In this study, I explore whether a specific case of openness in taste corresponds to a greater tolerance toward immigrants in the metropolitan research setting of Houston, Texas. This case study focuses on two different types of leisure activities: attendance at museums and live theaters, and attendance at sport events as highbrow and lowbrow activities, respectively. Using regression analysis, I examine whether the expected direct association between attendance at museums and live theaters and attendance at sport events varies by different degrees of tolerance toward immigrants. I find that openness in taste is not associated with a greater tolerance toward immigrants. Consequently, this case exemplifies how the sophistication attributed to openness in taste founded on cosmopolitan standards could be banal. I propose an alternative conceptual approach for discussing cases of openness in taste founded on entertainment such as the presented in this study, which might be useful for studying culture consumption and omnivorousness.