Las políticas sociales en el Welfare mix

Abstract

The handling of a sociological matter such as cultural «equipment» compels us to situate
ourselves at a crossroads where subjects such as urban sociology, the sociology of culture or the
sociology of daily life are thrown together.
The tackling of the causes of their genesis, as well as an approach to the way in which their
logics of introduction occur, lead us to question some of the assumptions that are uppermost
today and which, rather in the style of «preconceived notions», tend to establish themselves as an
apparent explanation for specific policies and decision-making in this sphere.
Certain concepts such as «cultural democratisation», inspired in its origins by post-war
progressive reforming policy in France, could have acted as a myth that obstructed discernment
of the fact that policies producing cultural «equipment» have tended to become unified and
independent of contextual decisions of a politico-ideological nature, retaining a strategic
function as instruments in the service of reproduction of established local powers.