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The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society / James E. Block.
LIBRA HQ784.P5 B56 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Block, James E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children and politics--United States--History.
- Children and politics.
- Child rearing--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Child rearing.
- Liberalism--United States.
- Liberalism.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- History.
- United States.
- Consensus (Social sciences).
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 447 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Block (political science, DePaul U.) offers an intriguing study of the development of individual and civic identity in a liberal American context, exploring the methodologies of child rearing and education in the country's early years and evaluating the effects of twentieth-century variations in educational and family norms on modern trends in the definition of citizenship and social cohesion. The work discusses the development of child rearing structures that moderated the anti-authoritarian principles of the nation's founding yet fostered the development of personal autonomy and responsibility within a framework of rewards based on social acceptance and the fulfillment of duty. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction: is consent credible?
- The hidden dynamic of childhood consent
- Part I. The dream of revolutionary erasure
- Part II. Framing liberal child-rearing in the early republic: from factionalism to mainstream: the emerging consensus on agency socialization; constituting the voluntary citizen; socializing society: popular education and the diffusion of
- Agency; educating the agent as liberal citizen
- Part III. Consolidating the postwar agency republic: the "self-made" citizen: the science of agency and the erasure of socialization; a superfluous socialization? shaping the self-realizing child; divided we stand: education in the emerging organizational age
- Coda: from dewey to discord-the twentieth-century crisis of the consensual society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674051942
- 0674051947
- OCLC:
- 709670295
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