The capitalist state and the construction of civil society : public funding and the regulation of popular education in Sweden, 1870-1991 /: public funding and the regulation of popular education in Sweden, 1870-1991. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist.
• Authors: Berg, Anne, 1981-; Edquist, Samuel
• Contents: The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations Swedish; Abbreviation Swedish, with English translation; List of Figures; 1 Capitalist States and Civil Societies; The Capitalist State and Civil Society; The Construction of Civil Society; The Institutional Expressions of the Swedish Capitalist State; Research Setting and Methodology; What Is Popular Education?; Popular Education Research; The Approach of Our Study; Outline of the Book; Notes; 2 Autonomisation, or, Governing the Evolution of Freedom; The Nineteenth-Century Capitalist State. Popular Education and the Popular ClassesThe Political Rationality of Subsidies for Popular Education; A Tale of Three Policies; Voluntary Education for Social Cohesion; The Enabling and Stabilising Role of Government Resources; The Grant System; Rising Grants, Rising Organisations; The Role of Public Funding for Folk High Schools and Lecture Societies; Notes; 3 Independent yet Functional and Rational; Governing Organisations; Bureaucratically Connected and Formalised Organisations; Circumscribing the Ideological Possibilities; Programmes for Social Consent; Apparatuses of Self-Regulation. Notes4 Autonomisation and Bureaucratisation in the Welfare State Era; The Formation of the Welfare State and the Swedish Experience; The Making of a Popular Education Sector; An Overview of the Government Grant System from 1911 to 1991; General Usefulness for the State and the Nation; Integrating Public and Private Funding; The Bureaucratic Integration of Popular Education; The Rise of a Government Popular Education Bureaucracy; The Corporatist Nature of Study Associations; Creating Organisations for Services and Cooperation. The Corporatist Balance Between Popular Education and Government as Reality and IdeologyNotes; 5 Designing Popular Education; Governing Internal Organisational and Educational Practices; Defining Organisational and Educational Forms; Requiring Systematicity, Pedagogical Quality and Cooperation; Governing Ideological Content; Fostering a Democratic Mind: From Anti-Politics to the Popular Movement Spirit; Reproducing National Identity; Promoting Morals and Elevating the Youth; Safeguarding Educational and Cultural Quality. Defining the Boundaries: The Contradiction Between Ideal and Organised Popular EducationNotes; 6 Conclusion; The Capitalist State and the Strategy of Autonomisation; Autonomisation and the Historical Process of Bureaucratisation; Epilogue: Autonomisation the Neo-Liberal Way; Notes; Bibliography; Archival sources; Archives of the Ministry of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs/Ministry of Education (EU); Archives of the National Board of Education (SÖ); Archives of the Popular Education Association and its predecessors (FBF); Riksdag publications.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 379.485; Education and state -- Sweden -- History -- 19th century; Education and state -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century; Education -- Sweden -- Finance -- History -- 19th century; Education -- Sweden -- Finance -- History -- 20th century; Capitalism -- Sweden -- History -- 19th century; Capitalism -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century; Civil society -- Sweden -- History -- 19th century; Civil society -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Capitalism; Civil society; Education and state; Education -- Finance; Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Education Policy; Sociology of Education; Education Economics; Sweden; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319524559; 3319524550
• Related ISBNs: 9783319524542; 3319524542
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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