DOUGLAS J. SLAWSON. The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order. (Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism.) Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 332. $43.00

2007 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-211
Author(s):  
C. A. Israel
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Catholic Schools ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Of Notre Dame

The Social Functions of Voluntary Associations in a Nineteenth-Century American Town

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don H. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Leaders ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Research

Recent research in American urban history has given us a polarized view of the social order of nineteenth-century cities. At one extreme the studies of urban spatial and social mobility have revealed a restless shifting population of individuals moving through the city attached by little more than a brief term of employment. “American society…,” concluded one such mobility study, “was more like a procession than a stable social order. How did this social order cohere at all?” To a large extent the answer to this question has come from another body of studies which have reexamined a variety of institutions from police to public schools and found them to be part of a broad effort among Protestant middle-class leaders to bring control and order to this strange new urban world. The new research on mobility and social control has enlarged our understanding of American social history in many important ways, however, our emphasis on mobility and the mechanisms of coercive social control may obscure the social order that citizens of nineteenth-century communities defined for themselves.

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