The rise of individual agency in conceptions of society: Textbooks worldwide, 1950-2011
The rise of individual agency in conceptions of society: Textbooks worldwide, 1950-2011
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DOI：
10.1177/0268580916675525
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Meyer, John W.
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作者：
Lerch, Julia;Bromley, Patricia;Meyer, John W.
一个得到广泛认可的社会学见解是，越来越多的国家日益表现出个人主义水平的上升。本文探讨了学校教育在多大程度上改变了，并传递，这一核心文化转变。它分析了1950年至2011年期间来自78个国家的476本中学社会科学教科书，看看它们是否越来越多地将社会描绘成由各种各样的个体行为者组成。例如，在一个实施例中，儿童、妇女、少数民族）。研究发现，对旧社会机构的重视程度保持稳定，但在全世界范围内，对人的重视程度显著增加，特别是对那些拥有权利的人。社会科学教学的这种全球人口化，在最近的新自由主义几十年中尤其强烈，是分析的每一种国家和教科书的特征，并且发生在样本的其他特征之上。
A broadly recognized sociological insight is that rising levels of individualism increasingly characterize a growing number of countries. This article examines the extent to which schooling is altered by, and transmits, this core cultural shift. It analyzes 476 secondary school social science textbooks from 78 countries from 1950 to 2011 to see whether they increasingly portray society as made up of agentic individual actors of all sorts (e. g., children, women, minorities). It is found that emphases on older social institutions remain stable, but there are striking worldwide increases in emphases on people, especially ones empowered with rights. This global peopling of social science instruction, especially strong in the recent neoliberal decades, characterizes every type of country and textbook analyzed, and occurs over and above other features of the sample.