Title Social paralysis and social change : British working-class education in the nineteenth century / Neil J. Smelser

Published Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 499 pages) Contents General considerations -- Accounts of educational change -- Primordial imagery in the Nineteenth Century -- Truce points and moments of change -- The case of Wales -- The cases of Ireland and Scotland -- The family economy and working-class education -- New roles : pupil-teacher, teacher, inspector -- Conclusion Summary Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain--often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict--struggled forward toward change. This book is ambitious in scope. It is both a detailed history of educational development and a theoretical study of social change, at once a case study of Britain and a comparative study of variations within Britain. Smelser simultaneously meets the scholarly standards of historians and critically addresses accepted theories of educational change--"progress," conflict, and functional theories. He also sheds new light on the process of secularization, the relations between industrialization and education, structural differentiation, and the role of the state in social change. This work marks a return for the author to the same historical arena--Victorian Britain--that inspired his classic work Social Change in the Industrial Revolution thirty-five years ago. Smelser's research has again been exhaustive. He has achieved a remarkable synthesis of the huge body of available materials, both primary and secondary. Smelser's latest book will be most controversial in its treatment of class as a primordial social grouping, beyond its economic significance. Indeed, his demonstration that class, ethnic, and religious groupings were decisive in determining the course of British working-class education has broad-ranging implications. These groupings remain at the heart of educational conflict, debate, and change in most societies--including our own--and prompt us to pose again and again the chronic question: who controls the educational terrain? Notes "A Centennial book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-485) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Working class -- Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Education, Elementary -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century EDUCATION -- Special Education -- Learning Disabilities. HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Education, Elementary Working class -- Education Lager onderwijs. Arbeidersklasse. Great Britain Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021696823 ISBN 9780520911543 0520911547 9780520075290 9780520075306 0520075293 0520075307

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