Abstract

SOAJE DE ELIAS, Raquel  and  SALAS FERNANDEZ, Manuel. Handbooks on urbanity: Backgrounds for their history in Chile. Káñina [online]. 2019, vol.43, n.3, pp.133-168. ISSN 2215-2636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rk.v43i3.41936.

How do you explain the constant need of man to regulate social behavior, in the most diverse periods of history, despite apparently having consolidated the so-called "social pact"? The answer involves several variables, but it shows a permanent challenge that society itself must face. Among them, this paper studies urbanity as a paradigm of self-controlled social behavior and its evolution over time in order to identify its fundamental features. In this context, we will explain how in the 19th century, with the resurgence of classical ideals, the incorporation of urbanity within the curriculum of public and private educational institutions in Chile, as a fundamental element to “civilize and moralize” the young citizens of the new republic . Thus, together with religion and morals, urbanity became one of three fundamental pillars to consolidate the republican order.

Keywords : Carreño; self-control; social behavior; civilize; moralize.

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