Institutionalization and Cultural Consumption: Continuities and Transformations of the Access to the Arts Logics in Chile (2003 – 2017)

Abstract

This paper describes and analyses the cultural consumption trajectories of Chilean people from the creation of the National Council of Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in 2003, until 2017. On the one hand, it shows a brief historical revision of Chile’s cultural policies and defines the principles that organize the cultural access as a strategic public policy. On the other, using the four surveys implemented in the NCCA, it presents the main trajectories and mutations of the cultural access in Chile. Thirdly, using a multiple correspondence analysis of the 2017 Survey of Cultural Participation in Chile, this paper describes a cluster analysis with the current profiles of Chileans cultural consumers. The analysis identifies four profiles: high access (15%), middle access (20%), low access (27%) and very low access (37%). According to previous research developed in the field, there is no evidence of structural changes in the stratification of cultural consumption in Chile in the last decade.