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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255110303321

Autore

Berg Anne

Titolo

The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society : Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870–1991 / / by Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52455-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Disciplina

379.485

Soggetti

Educational policy

Education and state

Educational sociology

Education—Economic aspects

Educational sociology 

Education and sociology

Educational Policy and Politics

Education Policy

Sociology of Education

Education Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Capitalist States and Civil Societies -- Chapter 2: Autonomisation, or, Governing the Evolution of Freedom -- Chapter 3: Independent yet Functional and Rational -- Chapter 4: Autonomisation and Bureaucratisation in the Welfare State Era -- Chapter 5: Designing Popular Education -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society. Although this idea is extremely common in modern capitalist societies, here it is turned on its head through a study of the ways in which public funding from the 1870s to the 1990s has enabled and shaped collective action in Swedish popular education. Popular education has generally been seen as independent of government control, with strong connections to popular and labour



movements; in this volume, Berg and Edquist narrate a new story of its rise by analysing how a government grant system was constructed to drive its development. A key element in this government policy was to create and protect popular education as an autonomous phenomenon, yet making it perform state functions by regulating its bureaucratic make-up and ideological content. The book will appeal to scholars and students of history, education, and sociology, particularly those with an interest in the workings of the capitalist state as well as the history of education.