The research centre studies culture in a broad sense and from a multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating contributions from sociology, anthropology, history and cultural studies. In particular, it would aim to analyse the relationships between cultural practices, power, identities and social change. The centre's research objectives are the following: 

1. Analysis of culture, cultural practices and social change: study of the transformations of contemporary society from the perspective of the sociology of culture, the emergence of new creative practices, the cohort effect in the change of cultural practices, the emergence of new communities of cultural consumption and the expansion of these patterns towards other social spheres (artistisation) or the entry of logics from other fields into the cultural sphere (digitalisation, politicisation, etc.). 
2. Analysis of sport and leisure practices: study of new patterns of sporting practice, the relationship between social change, social cohesion and sport, the relationship between institutions in the field of sport and the political and economic fields. Research on the transformation of urban space into a space of leisure and of cities as settings and producers of new social practices that reconfigure urban structures and their uses. 
3. Analysis of power and intellectuals: Study of the relationship between power and culture as a mechanism of control and normalisation and hierarchisation or the dynamics of cultural resistance of old and new social movements. Research into the interrelationships and dependencies between the political, intellectual and cultural fields and their role in social reproduction and change. 
4. Analysis of festive culture and cultural heritage: study of the development of festive culture, the social role of cultural traditions and the processes of modernisation of festive events in the context of cultural globalisation processes. Analysis of the processes of construction of a cultural memory and the valorisation of cultural heritage in terms of the construction of local and territorial identities, especially in contexts of cultural plurality. 
5. Analysis of culture, territory and national identities: study of the relationship between national and cultural identities, cultural political configurations, sub-state politics and federalism, as well as their role in economic and social development and the generation of territorial brands in a globalised framework (place branding), applied especially to the Valencian country. 
6. Analysis of political culture, historical memory and identities: Study of the relationship between the socio-historical framework and political culture. 
7. Analysis of cultural policies, institutions and organisations: study of territorial and local cultural policies as systems of governance and interrelation between cultural agents and their role in the configuration of collective identities and as mechanisms for the development of artistic districts, the empowerment of sectors and the promotion of creative professions. Study of the discourses and praxis of public, private and third sector cultural institutions and, in particular, of museums and other entities representative of the autonomous field of culture. 
8. Analysis of the impact of new technologies on culture: Study on new cultural practices in the digital framework. Study of the impact of new technologies on the mechanisms of power and social and cultural control.

Contributors

• Arturo Rubio Arostegui - Nebrija University (Madrid).

Work group

• María Patricio Mulero - Université Paris 8 (Francia).

Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities