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The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society

Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870–1991

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Authors:
  1. Anne Berg

    1. Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  2. Samuel Edquist

    1. Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  • Demonstrates how the so-called civil society is to be regarded as a function of the capitalist state, formed and reproduced by government decisions
  • Develops a historical perspective and empirical evidence to push the state vs. civil society debate in a new direction
  • Provides a comprehensive history of popular education and its material preconditions

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Capitalist States and Civil Societies

    • Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist
    Pages 1-18

  3. Autonomisation, or, Governing the Evolution of Freedom

    • Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist
    Pages 19-57

  4. Independent yet Functional and Rational

    • Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist
    Pages 59-82

  5. Autonomisation and Bureaucratisation in the Welfare State Era

    • Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist
    Pages 83-129

  6. Designing Popular Education

    • Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist
    Pages 131-161

  7. Conclusion

    • Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist
    Pages 163-180

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 181-208
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Anne Berg

  • Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Samuel Edquist

About the authors

Anne Berg is Senior Lecturer in Education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her current research focus is on the history of education.

Samuel Edquist is Senior Lecturer in Archives, Libraries, and Museums studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. His current research focusses on archives in relations to societal ideas and debates on cultural heritage and privacy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society

  • Book Subtitle: Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870–1991

  • Authors: Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52455-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52454-2Published: 25 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84907-2Published: 01 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52455-9Published: 10 July 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 208

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Education Economics, Sociology of Education

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