The Crucible of Consent : : American Child Rearing and the Forging of Liberal Society / / James E. Block.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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