espanolEste articulo tiene el objetivo de mostrar y debatir algunos de los principales supuestos originarios del concepto de cultura politica. En este sentido, lo que se pretende es desvelar, debatir y analizar los fundamentos que contiene de lo que son la cultura y la politica, pues se considera que en ese punto estan sus principales limitaciones aclaratorias. Al final, lo que se espera es contribuir a la construccion de una base critica sobre el concepto para, a partir de ahi, replantearlo o buscar vias alternas de explicacion acerca de los fenomenos sociopoliticos que pretende estudiar. EnglishThe objective of this article is to show and debate some of the primary premises of the concept of political culture. In this sense, what we hope to show, debate and analyze are the basics of what culture and politics are as contained in political culture. We think that this is the point where its main explicative limitations are to be found. Finally, what we hope to do is contribute to the construction of a critical base on the concept in order to, based on this, rethink it and search for alternate routes for explaining the socio-political phenomenon to be studied.