The Crucible of Consent : American Child Rearing and the Forging of Liberal Society / James E. Block.
Block, James E., author.
2012
HQ784.P5 B56 2012eb
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Title The Crucible of Consent : American Child Rearing and the Forging of Liberal Society / James E. Block.
Author Block, James E., author.
ISBN 9780674062610
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062610
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
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Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674062610 doi
Call Number HQ784.P5 B56 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 649/.10973
Summary A democratic government requires the consent of its citizens. But how is that consent formed? Why should free people submit to any rule? Pursuing this question to its source for the first time, The Crucible of Consent argues that the explanation is to be found in the nursery and the schoolroom. Only in the receptive and less visible realms of childhood and youth could the necessary synthesis of self-direction and integrative social conduct-so contradictory in logic yet so functional in practice-be established without provoking reservation or resistance.From the early postrevolutionary republic, two liberal child-rearing institutions-the family and schooling-took on a responsibility crucial to the growing nation: to produce the willing and seemingly self-initiated conformability on which the society's claim of freedom and demand for order depended. Developing the institutional mechanisms for generating early consent required the constant transformation of child-rearing theory and practice over the course of the nineteenth century. By exploring the systematic reframing of relations between generations that resulted, this book offers new insight into the consenting citizenry at the foundation of liberal society, the novel domestic and educational structures that made it possible, and the unprecedented role created for the young in the modern world.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Is Consent Credible?
1. The Hidden Dynamic of Childhood Consent
I. The Dream of Revolutionary Erasure
2. The Revolution against Patriarchy and the Crisis of Founding
3. Unencumbered Youth and the Postrevolutionary Vacuum of Authority
4. Divergent Childhoods, Different Republics: The Initial Turn to Socialization
II. Framing Liberal Child Rearing in the Early Republic
5. The Emerging Consensus on Agency Socialization
6. Toward a Child- Centered Family
7. Winning the Child's Will
8. Socializing Society: Pop u lar Education and the Diffusion of Agency
9. Educating the Agent as Liberal Citizen
III. Consolidating the Postwar Agency Republic
10. The "Self- Made" Citizen and the Erasure of Socialization
11. A Superfluous Socialization? Shaping the Self-Realizing Child
12. Educating the Voluntary Citizen in an Organizational Age
Coda: From Deweyan Consensus to the Crisis of Consent
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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