Some categories in political culture and their possibilities as tools of analysis in the field of socio-political research in colombia today

This paper addresses the possibilities of political culture, understood not only as a topic of study, but also as an analytical approach on its own for the development of research works within the scope of political and social sciences in Colombia —specifically a micro-political approach is called into play, within which political culture emerges as a subordinated discipline within political science, as a useful tool to understand and get insights about certain actors’ attitudes in the public sphere.

From a critical perspective, political culture in Colombia is defined on the basis of the strains and contradictions of social groups in conflict, recognizing the coexistence of plural political cultures in the nation’s social context. Inside that critical approach, the thorny questions upon which political culture has been built in our country are to be found.

From conservative and neoconservative approaches defining neodemocratic dynamics and their neo-corporate expressions in the Colombian political regime within the framework of the neo-liberal development model up to the “patriotic” neo-corporate trends and expressions that according to several authors are evidenced at the end of the 20th century and beginnings of the 21th century in our country.