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An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Cultural Capital on the Political Information Acquisition

Park, Keun-Young 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research has been performed in order to investigate the probability that cultural factors in everyday life affect individuals’political behaviors. Using the data collected from 2014 Seoul mayoral election, it analyzes how the degree to which individuals have various cultural capital influences their types of political information acquisition through media. The outcomes suggest following three. First, the more cultural capital individuals have, the more active they are in obtaining political information using diverse media. Second, those who mark high score in the self-cognitive area of cultural capital, such as cultural preferences and cultural tastes, tend to gather political information throughout formal news-oriented media such as on-line news, TV, and newspapers. Third, when types of media are classified into old and new, those who have a variety of cultural capital are likely to prefer new media as their major source of political information acquisition.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.