문화는 청년의 삶을 바꿀 수 있는가?: 광주 청년의 문화 향유에 대한 연구

Abstract

In this study, I raise a question of ‘Can culture change youth’s life?‘. To answer this question, I tried to examine the effects of cultural enjoyment of young people. The effects of culture or cultural enjoyment has always been a controversial topic. Some people insisted the positive effects of general culture, the others criticized the negative effects of low quality culture like mass culture. I tried to show the effects through analysing the survey research data of ’Youth culture survey 2017 in Gwangju city’ collected by Gwangju Culture Foundation. To identify the effect of cultural enjoyment, I divided four types of cultural enjoyment, ‘everyday cultural enjoyment’, ‘mass cultural event enjoyment’, ‘art enjoyment’, and ‘cultural-artistic creation’. And then I analysed the relative effects of these types to youth’s feeling of satisfaction and happiness of life through statistical analysis. The findings are as follows. First, youth’s satisfaction of cultural enjoyment was strongly related to mass cultural event enjoyment. Second, feeling of happiness was mainly explained by mass cultural event enjoyment, satisfaction of everyday culture satisfaction, cultural-artistic creation satisfaction, job and income in regression model. These findings tell us that cultural enjoyment, though the effect of mass cultural event enjoyment is stronger, can affect positively to youth’s life and each type of cultural enjoyment has differential effects to it. These results suggest the policy of enhancement of youth’s cultural enjoyment, and also show us the necessity of matching efforts corresponding to each type of cultural enjoyment in youth’s life.