This research line encompasses studies on various forms of symbolic elaboration, cultural experiences, and exchanges built under different circumstances. It focuses on the study of customs, values, and cultural practices that define and are defined by social relations in work, everyday life, institutions, rituals, legal practices, and the arts. Through notarial documentation, legal proceedings, and other sources (oral, visual, audiovisual, among others), it seeks to understand how cultural patterns, power relations, ideologies, and institutions are created and transformed by the dynamics of groups and the strategies of individuals, at various scales, analyzing both collective and individual experiences through which agents are formed and act as subjects within their social groups.

This research line will also include studies on the press as a space of intervention marked by political, economic, and cultural tensions and disputes. It considers various aspects of the production, distribution/circulation, and reception of ideas, images, and other narratives to be relevant. These interconnected aspects help us understand how processes of meaning-making occur and how they are challenged and reconfigured in debates among individuals, social groups, or entire societies. The study of the arts, in turn, will encompass not only the cultural product itself but also its media, spaces, and the individuals involved, analyzed according to their social position (gender, class, race).

Issues related to the history of historical thought and the theory and history of literature will also be considered. Regarding the former, the research line includes studies on theories, methods, and writings through which historical thought has been constructed and shaped by issues of culture, society, politics, economy, and power. Regarding the latter, it is important to note that fiction, with its various genres and foundations, involves devices regulated by programs designed to hierarchize cultural artifacts according to provisional criteria and arrangements. It is worth recognizing the possibility of historicizing such devices and their diverse applications. The underlying criteria of these fields and questions systematically reveal power relations, depending on the practices that shape them and emerge from them.