Analysis of Cultural Indicators: A Comparison of Their Conceptual Basis and Dimensions

Luz Maria Ortega-Villa () and Judith Ley-Garcia
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Luz Maria Ortega-Villa: Autonomous University of Baja California
Judith Ley-Garcia: Autonomous University of Baja California

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, vol. 137, issue 2, No 1, 413-439

Abstract: Abstract Multiple organizations and institutions have been resorting to indicators on diverse aspects of culture (e.g., creativity, social cohesion, cultural vitality, economic participation), according to their particular purposes and views of what is to be measured. This paper presents results from a research report of a qualitative study that analyzed 35 papers on cultural indicators found via Internet, based on four categories: purpose, assumptions about culture, concept of culture they sustain, and dimensions of indicators considered. Results show that even when the importance of culture is widely recognized in the papers, most of them propose indicators without having solid theoretical foundations, and with an emphasis on the relation between culture and economy. Also, most of the documents do not have a definition of culture or present an instrumental conceptualization of it, where culture is valued not as an end in itself but as a resource than can serve to development.

Keywords: Cultural indicators; Sustainable development; Cultural development; Human development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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