Elite Education in Nineteenth-Century Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID2840482
AuthorsGertrude M Yeager (corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume71
Issue1
Pages73
Publication date1991-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2516423
OpenAlexW4251911926
LanguageEN
Citations received16

T HE elite of nineteentlh-century Chile has traditionally been seen as disciplined, progressive, and indudstiious. Both Chilean and foreign scholars have generally accepted the argument that such essentially bourgeois chairacteristics underlay the nation's uniquie political stability and economic pIrosperity. In fact, this pervasive view of Chilean history probably has some meiIt. To a remarkable extent, Chile's gente decente, as the elite styled itself, was able to maintain internal discipline, preserve a degree of homogeneity, and achieve national political consensus through parliamentary governmeint. How Chileans achieved the elite consolidation and political stability whiclh their counterparts in neiglhboring states found so elusive is the subject of this essay.' Recent studies in social history suggest that elite formation is often not a random process but may in part proceed deliberately throuigh formal socialization and eduication of youth. In countries such as England and the United States, where the state did not involve itself directly in civic

Argument (complex analysis) · Bourgeoisie · Consolidation (business) · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Law · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Political theory and Gramsci

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