The new heirs
Based on the search for configurations of tastes and practices that are specific to different social groups, the omnivorousness and eclecticism models rest on a substantialist representation of relations to culture, whose changing behavior forces a proliferation of types and sub-types. To overcome this problem, the proposed analysis focuses on identifying attitudes seen as sustainable and transmittable psychological constructs. It is based on a statistical survey carried out in January 2012 at the request of the University of Paris-Dauphine. The introduction of questions on the meaning given to activities and the representation of posture in situations (e.g. : museum or exhibition visits) leads to the highlighting of different approaches to culture among the students. More voluntary, more conformist or more distant, they refer to different socialization contexts and at the same time bear witness to the intergenerational continuity of traditional culture as a value.