ABSTRACT
In contrast to the political analysis that divides the social body according to dichotomous guiding distinctions -left/right, conservative/progressive-, our proposal focuses on the analysis of the cultural conflict in modern societies from a new perspective expressed in the struggle, in the dynamic tension between narratives, between conflicting worldviews that interact within four societies -United States, Spain, France and England- trying to achieve the symbolic monopoly of the vital center of public culture. Within each of these societies, the specific connection of meaning acquired by different variables - such as abortion, euthanasia, LGTBIQ+ identity, education in religious values, stem cell research, creationism, race, nationalism, loss of status, gender and immigration, which operate within such narratives - takes on a different relevance, thus shaping a typology of "culture wars". Firstly, we analyze the milestones, the fundamental waves and semantic changes that shape these culture wars over the last 100 years, by way of a social and semantic reconstruction of the concept, secondly, we analyze the main conceptual features of the “culture war” today and, thirdly, we analyze a shifting sociological geometry of “culture wars” within four countries.
