Las profesiones de la sociocultura en españa: ¿colonización, adaptación o creatividad?

Abstract

In Spain, in the 1950s, informal social agents lacking in most cases of theoretical background and technical instruments, developed sociocultural work in the community. They were the forerunners of many current sociocultural professionals. Over the years, there have been fundamental changes in lifestyles and relationships. Sociocultural professionals are a response to those changes, but they are also the result of colonization of everyday life spaces by professionals? Do they adapt to sociocultural issues that appear along with these sociocultural changes, or are they a creative response from the institutions or the professionals them-selves? Analysis suggest that sociocultural professionals have been an adapted response to the problems appeared in developed societies over recent decades, using creativity in their actions.