Art in the Structure of Muscovites’ Leisure Time

In the course of multiple sociological researches performed in Russia, the social portrait of art public - the picture of artistic life and people’s attitude to art - has been recreated. The article attempts to complement this picture with a description of essential regularities of people’s behavior in relation to art. Upon the results of performed research, the author draws a conclusion that the content and structure of people’s leisure have experi enced significant changes in recent years. The leisure role of art, its portion in the people’s leisure structure, is also changing. An analysis of sociological surveys’ results al lowed to identify the dynamics of people’s leisure interest in culture and art, as well as some essential regularities of cultural and leisure behavior of the residents of large Rus sian cities. Thus, the research leads to the conclusion that art, in one form or another, is included in the leisure func tion of most people, but its percentage in the totality of their leisure preferences is quite small. Along with that, a retrospective analysis of more than 30 years’ sociological data revealed that people’s attitude to art and to its lei sure role fluctuates. The article demonstrates that people’s cultural and leisure behavior and art’s leisure role are de termined by macro-social changes, which cause transfor mations in people’s lifestyle and standards of living, deve lopment of new types of leisure and changes in the content of traditional ones. There are also assessed the related so cio-cultural risks for artistic culture.

leisure, free time, leisure structure, leisure activities, entertainment preferences, social functions, culture, art

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