El ejercicio del poder en la España del siglo xviii

Abstract

This paper analyzes the big changes made in the exercise of power in Eighteenth Century Spain through the conversion of the sociability practices as a new instrument of social domination. The essay is developed from three aspects: studying the progressive identification between cultural practices and political practices, a fact which contributed to the convergence of the power of culture with the culture of power; making a path through the spaces of sociability most importante in that period, the Reales Academias, the Sociedades Económicas de Amigos del País, the social gathering and saloons; and showing the identity of social actors. In this process was fundamental the support lended by the new political and administrative class to the new forms of sociability, which were adopted in their everyday life, while at the same time being used as a way of social promotion and a springboard to achieve power.

Keywords

• Bureaucracy
• Cultural Practices
• Political Practices
• Sociability
• Social Domination
•  Spain