| Resumo: | The cultural indicators literature recognizes them as the newest member of the indicators family. In the perspective of understanding how its concept and application occurs in the social reality, it is intended to comprehend the history through schools and moves around the theme. Therefore, it is problematized this path starting from the agents, institutions, temporalities and intentionalities in the indicators definition and uses. It is concluded with the results presentation in the exploratory research made, involving the bibliographic and documental survey, naming a framework of the lines of the act and the exponents of investigation and cultural indicators use. |