Research Catalog

Title

The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society / James E. Block.

Author

Block, James E.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Description

xii, 447 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Children and politics > United States > History
• Child rearing > History. > United States
• Liberalism > United States
• Citizenship > United States
• Consensus (Social sciences)
• Agent (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780674051942
• 0674051947

LCCN

^^2011022862

OCLC

709670295

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library