4. Divergent Childhoods, Different Republics: The Initial Turn to Socialization

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Is Consent Credible? 1
5. 1. The Hidden Dynamic of Childhood Consent 9
6. I. The Dream of Revolutionary Erasure
7. 2. The Revolution against Patriarchy and the Crisis of Founding 41
8. 3. Unencumbered Youth and the Postrevolutionary Vacuum of Authority 66
9. 4. Divergent Childhoods, Different Republics: The Initial Turn to Socialization 91
10. II. Framing Liberal Child Rearing in the Early Republic
11. 5. The Emerging Consensus on Agency Socialization 119
12. 6. Toward a Child- Centered Family 153
13. 7. Winning the Child’s Will 174
14. 8. Socializing Society: Pop u lar Education and the Diffusion of Agency 194
15. 9. Educating the Agent as Liberal Citizen 216
16. III. Consolidating the Postwar Agency Republic
17. 10. The “Self- Made” Citizen and the Erasure of Socialization 241
18. 11. A Superfluous Socialization? Shaping the Self-Realizing Child 272
19. 12. Educating the Voluntary Citizen in an Organizational Age 289
20. Coda: From Deweyan Consensus to the Crisis of Consent 323
21. Notes 355
22. Acknowledgments 421
23. Index 423