POLITICAL CULTURE, POLITICAL HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

The movement of renewal of historiography promoted by 3rd generation of Annales did the concept of political culture the central category of a new political history. According to Rene Remond, the concept of political culture is able to meet all the requirements of scientificity required to rehabilitate the field of politics among historians, after a long period of ostracism due to the predominance of an economic and social history. This article aims to analyze the appropriation of the concept of political culture by historians in order to understand the role played by the concept of "return policy history" process as well as the direction the study of politics came to be taken among historians.