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dc.contributor.authorMeyer, John W.
dc.contributor.authorTyack, David
dc.contributor.authorNagel, Joane
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Audri
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-01T21:18:37Z
dc.date.available2015-06-01T21:18:37Z
dc.date.issued1979-11
dc.identifier.citationMeyer, John W., David Tyack, Joane Nagel, and Audri Gordon. "Public Education as Nation-Building in America: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930." American Journal of Sociology Am J Sociol 85.3 (1979): 591. Web.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/17946
dc.descriptionThis is the published version. Copyright 1979 University of Chicago Press.en_US
dc.description.abstractCurrent discussions of the effects of urbanization and industrialization on the bureaucratization of American public education in the later 19th century do not offer effective explanations of the expansion of the educational system in the first place. Enrollments were high much earlier than these explanations suggest and were probably higher in rural than in urban settings. We argue that the spread of public education, especially in the North and West, took place through a series of nation-building social movements having partly religious and partly political forms. We see these movements as reflecting the involvement and success of American society in the world exchange economy and the dominance of parallel religious ideologies. State-level data are used to show both the absence of positive effects of urban industrialism on enrollments and some suggestive effects of evangelical Protestantism and 19th-century Republicanism.en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen_US
dc.titlePublic Education as Nation-Building in America: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930en_US
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorNagel, Joane
kusw.kudepartmentSociologyen_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1822-9420
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
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