Cultural Patterns, Narratives and Political Discourses. Cultural Change and Political Practices

This text describes and tries to recognize the presence of cultural change that in terms of political practices have occurred in the last five years (2016-2021) in the province of San Luis, Argentina. Faced with the dynamics of the spread of populism, the growing political personalism, the dynamics of "local" democracies, we seek to know the existence of a cultural change in local political practices and how cultural patterns have changed narratives and political speeches. The dynamics of policies and political processes involve complex systems, in which the passage of time, cause and effect are subtle phenomena. Three levels are proposed for data analysis. Bourdieu points out that the social exists twice – “social reality exists, so to speak, twice, in things and in brains, in fields and in habitus, outside and inside agents. ” (Bourdieu and Wacquant 2005, p 13.) Also, the social exists three times if it is incorporated into Bourdieu's duality, the instance or relational plane, or interpersonal (Mazzola, 2021), which is not a synthesis of the other two , since it presents this third option, its own characteristics, autonomy and logic, despite the fact that objective reality converges with subjective reality, it is not a question of a fusion of them in the interrelationship processes. The Justicialista party governs San Luis, since December 1983. In recent years, the leader Alberto Rodríguez Saa has had a political pre-eminence in that period, winning all the electoral acts carried out every two years, with the sole exception of the last election, held in November 2021. The opposition candidate Claudio Poggi, managed to defeat official Peronism by more than 1,500 votes, which used the entire state apparatus (social aid, money loans to different sectors to be repaid in comfortable installments without interest) to obtain the electoral triumph, which he did not achieve. Politically, San Luis stands out for being governed by the same party since December 1983: the Justicialista party, which has displayed over the years a culture of political personalism, populism, and clientelism.