
The Americanization Syndrome
A Quest for Conformity
Robert A. Carlson(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 16. November 2022
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-1-032-36352-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Americanization Syndrome (1987) examines the historical role of education in the process of 'Americanization'. It argues that beginning with seventeenth century puritan leaders such as John Winthrop and Cotton Maher, the pattern of American education has been not the promotion of a blend of different cultures but the indoctrination of norms of belief of religion, politics and economics and an explicit discouragement of cultural variety. It traces the political role of education at key junctures of American history - after Independence, in the reconstruction of the South after the Civil War, in the establishment of settlement houses and the use of scientific management techniques by employers. The author focuses on the period 1900-1925 when new waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe led to a new drive for orthodoxy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
479 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-36352-3 (9781032363523)
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Person
Robert A. Carlson
Content
1. The 'City on a Hill' 2. Franklin's 'Happy Mediocrity' 3. Americanizing the New Nation 4. Redefining the Ideology 5. Helping Immigrants Become American: The Humanitarian Americanizers 6. Reducing the Intake of Impurities: The Immigration Restrictionists 7. The Imperious Demand for Conformity: The Scientific Americanizers 8. Let the Professionals Do It 9. Broadening the Consensus 10. Hispanics and the Language Question