La alta sociedad, el mundo de la cultura y la modernización en la Buenos Aires del cambio del siglo XIX al XX

Abstract

The article analyses the intellectual sociabilities and the trajectories of some of the most outstanding figures of this spheres in the Buenos Aires of the turn of the XIX to XX century. The main purpose is to think about the impact of the profound economic, social, political and cultural changes that affect the Argentina in this period, between them the professionalisation of the intellectual activities, over the central role that, until then, had played the traditional high society in the cultural field. The article hypothesis is that these mutations decreased that role, and, therefore, to belong to the traditional elite might be a relevant capital but not a crucial one to obtain success or prestige in the cultural field.