Codes of conduct, arguments and values of advice literature

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Helena Béjar

Abstract

This article follows Norbert Elias' sociology and his analysis of civilization as the progress of self-control. I consider advice literature and, more concretely, self-help books as the contemporary equivalent of the books of manners studied by Elias. Whilst these books regulated external behaviour, self-help literature is aimed at producing norms about the subjectivity of contemporary women and men.

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Keywords

books of manners, self-help literature, self-dependency, self-sufficiency, reflexivity, interdependency, responsibility

Section
Research Articles