El análisis de la política cultural en perspectiva sociológica. Claves introductorias al estudio del caso español

Abstract

There is a growing interest in cultural policy research. In fact an entire interdisciplinary academic field is now in the process of being built around this subject. Many disciplinary approaches, from economics to political science, cultural studies or sociology, converge in this area, although not all of them are equally articulated. The sociological perspective remains largely implicit. This article aims to develop the foundations of such a perspective for the study of cultural policy. The article begins by introducing the interdisciplinary context in which sociological work on this issue develops and then from there try to define the principles that would characterize the sociological approach, showing the vision of cultural policy research that follows them. This vision has served as a framework for research on the configuration of cultural policy in Spain and that is why this article also serves to introduce a special issue of the RIPS that collects some results of that investigation. In this regard, the article ends by presenting a series of keys to the study of the Spanish case.