Los espacios del consumo cultural colectivo

Abstract

A sociological issue like cultural equipment depends on topics such as urban sociology,
sociology of culture and everyday life sociology. The study of its origin and the way in which it
is rooted lead us to question some presuppositions which nowadays are usual and which tend to
be used as apparent explanations of specific policies and decisions made on this field.
Some concepts such as «cultural democratization» are inspired on the progressive reforming
postwar policy in France. They could have been acting as a myth which didn’t allow us to see
the fact that cultural equipment production policies have already homogenized independently of
ideological context determinations while keeping a strategic funcion as instruments for local
power reproduction.