Culture as an Analytical Key to Popular Collective Action

Abstract

In this article we characterize the approaches that assume culture as key analytical collective action and analyzing the symbolic and cognitive processes that take place in organizations and networks of social movements, where the frames of meaning and collective identities are conceived to give meaning to social participation and explain, at least in part, the emergence,
development and persistence of a social movement in time. We also characterize the critical reception that this «cultural turn» in the study of collective action had in Latin America by the end of the last century, specifically from class category and the contributions of recent Latin American cultural studies.