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AbstractResearch on cultural omnivorousness—the concept conceptualized originally as the ability to expand one's cultural preferences—continues to grow in prominence in studies of the cultural dimension of social stratification. Given recent inconsistent empirical findings, this study returned to the origins of the concept and examined the role of values in developing omnivorous cultural taste. Based on the example of Germany and relying on data from the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS/GGSS) in 2014, this study empirically examined the indirect effect of social position on cultural omnivorousness via postmaterialistic values using structural equation modeling. The findings suggest that postmaterialist values could be mediators; a higher position in the social structure implied a higher likelihood to hold postmaterialist values, which led to higher cultural omnivorousness. The indicators of social position were also analyzed separately, given that the explanatory power of educational attainment in predicting cultural omnivorousness was approximately the same as that of occupational characteristics. The proportion of the relationship mediated by values did not differ significantly in models with education or occupational characteristics as predictors of cultural omnivorousness.

Die Forschung zur kulturellen Omnivorizität - ein Konzept, das ursprünglich als die Fähigkeit zur Erweiterung der eigenen kulturellen Präferenzen konzipiert wurde - gewinnt in Studien zur kulturellen Dimension der sozialen Schichtung immer mehr an Bedeutung. Angesichts der jüngsten widersprüchlichen empirischen Befunde kehrt diese Studie zu den Ursprüngen des Konzepts zurück und untersucht die Rolle von Werten bei der Entwicklung eines omnivoren kulturellen Geschmacks. Am Beispiel Deutschlands und basierend auf den Daten der Allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS/GGSS) 2014 wurde der indirekte Effekt der sozialen Position auf kulturelle Omnivorizität über postmaterialistische Werte mittels Strukturgleichungsmodellierung empirisch untersucht. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass postmaterialistische Werte als Mediatoren angesehen werden können; eine höhere Position in der sozialen Struktur implizierte eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit, postmaterialistische Werte verinnerlicht zu haben, was zu einer höheren kulturellen Omnivorizität führt. Die Indikatoren der sozialen Position wurden ebenfalls getrennt analysiert, wobei sich herausstellte, dass die Erklärungskraft des Bildungsniveaus bei der Vorhersage von kultureller Omnivorizität in etwa die gleiche war wie bei den beruflichen Merkmalen. Der Anteil der Werte, die in Modellen mit Bildung oder beruflichen Merkmalen als Prädiktoren für kulturelle Omnivorizität vermittelt wurden, unterschied sich nicht signifikant.

Cultural omnivorousness is widely studied as a dimension of the stratification of taste, related to class or status positions. However, taste is also structured by patterns of social mobility, especially educational mobility. Building on Lizardo's Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption article, we expect that cultural omnivorousness systematically depends on patterns of educational mobility. Specifically, we predict that a higher inherited educational capital triggers a taste for less legitimate culture. Using survey data on tastes in music in Germany, we tested the effects of acquired and inherited cultural capital in predicting tastes for less legitimate cultural forms of taste at the level of genres and the effects of educational mobility in predicting cultural omnivorousness. Our results suggest that, first, the effect of parents' education in predicting taste for less legitimate music genres is larger than the effect of the respondents' own education. Second, the analysis reveals significant differences in omnivorous taste across segments of educational mobility groups. In general, there are three groups that show the highest omnivorousness: upwardly and downwardly mobile groups between middle and high positions and stayers in the high-level segment, whereas immobile individuals in the lower segment are the most univorous. Contrary to expectations, respondents with upward educational mobility who reach a high level of education accumulate omnivorous attitudes to a high degree. This study shows partial support for the statements of theory and proposes trajectories for future research.

These are the replication files for the article "The role of values as mediator in relationships between social position and cultural omnivorousness in Germany" (Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Heft 4, 2022).

The dataset used: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften (2018). German General Social Survey - ALLBUS 2014. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5242 Data file Version 1.1.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13143.

These replication files contain a folder with two Do files to replicate the results in Stata 17 as well as input files for Mplus analysis and corresponding folders for other materials.

Social media data (SMD) have become an important data source in the social sciences. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the experiences and practices of researchers working with SMD in their research and gain insights into researchers' sharing behavior and influencing factors for their decisions. To achieve these aims, we conducted a survey study among researchers working with SMD. The questionnaire covered different topics related to accessing, (re)using, and sharing SMD. To examine attitudes toward data sharing, perceived subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control, we used questions based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). We employed a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses. The results of the qualitative analysis show that the main reasons for not sharing SMD were that sharing was not considered or needed, as well as legal and ethical challenges. The quantitative analyses reveal that there are differences in the relative importance of past sharing and reuse experiences, experienced challenges, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control as predictors of future SMD sharing intentions, depending on the way the data should be shared (publicly, with restricted access, or upon personal request). Importantly, the TPB variables have predictive power for all types of SMD sharing.

Data from online survey among authors of the social sciences using social media data for their research and having published journal articles based on social media data between 2018 and 2021. The questionnaire consists of several closed and open-ended questions in seven main sections: a) data acquisition and use of secondary data, b) past data sharing behaviour, c) data sharing intentions, d) data documentation, e) use of other forms of data, f) personality and g) demography. The questions to measure factors that influence researchers' data sharing decisions were designed using the Theory of Planned Behavior (Icek Ajzen).

Data from online survey among authors of the social sciences using social media data for their research and having published journal articles based on social media data between 2018 and 2021. The questionnaire consists of several closed and open-ended questions in seven main sections: a) data acquisition and use of secondary data, b) past data sharing behaviour, c) data sharing intentions, d) data documentation, e) use of other forms of data, f) personality and g) demography. The questions to measure factors that influence researchers' data sharing decisions were designed using the Theory of Planned Behavior (Icek Ajzen).