Los Hábitos de Lectura en Colombia: Una Aproximación desde la Encuesta ENLEC 2017

Abstract

The reading habit is a recurring theme in sociology that is framed in the study of cultural practices either from a quantitative or qualitative approach. With the intention of addressing this topic and its relationship with the economic capital of people, a descriptive statistical study is proposed that uses as main input the National Reading Survey of 2017 and relates the results with the theoretical contributions of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The results, which are of an exploratory type, try to relate the reading habit and the economic income of individuals, these show that although there is a greater taste for reading as the economic income increases it does not necessarily translate into a greater number of books read and therefore into a more assiduous reading habit, they also show that currently the cultural practice of reading is in competition with practices of digital consumerism such as social networks, although for reading books the printed format is still preferred over the digital one.