Socialization and Civil Society -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: POLITICS AS SUPERNANNY: Bringing up children, youth policy and Isaiah Berlin's two kinds of freedom -- 1.1 CHILD-UPBRINGING AS BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY -- 1.2 SIMPLIFICATION AND POLARIZATION -- 1.3 ISAIAH BERLIN AND THE TWO CONCEPTS OF FREEDOM -- 1.4 LIBERATING THE DEBATE ON SOCIALIZATION -- CHAPTER 2: THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST CHILD -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 CHILD MORTALITY: NATURAL PHENOMENON OR PROBLEM? -- 2.3 PRESENT-DAY CHILD POLICY -- 2.3.1 Child-raising contracts -- 2.3.2 The approach to the problem of loitering youths -- 2.4 TO CONCLUDE: YOUTH POLICY AND IMPROVING THE FUTURE -- CHAPTER 3: THE MODERNITY OF CHILD ABUSE -- 3.1 CHILDREN AND MODERNIZATION -- 3.2 CHILD ABUSE AND THE 'AT RISK' POLICY -- 3.3 CHILD ABUSE AND SOCIAL CONTEXT -- 3.4 A SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY OF CHILD ABUSE? -- 3.5 CONTEXTUAL INTERVENTIONS -- 3.6 CONCLUSION: A MODERN PROBLEM DEMANDS A MOREMODERN RESPONSE -- CHAPTER 4: THE EDUCATIVE CIVIL SOCIETY AS REMEDY: Breaking the stressful double bind of child-rearing and socialization -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 THE DOUBLE-BIND AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON -- 4.3 THE ROLE OF CHILD-REARING EXPERTS -- 4.4 THE DOUBLE-BIND OF PARENTHOOD AND MODERNIZATION -- 4.5 RIGID 'PREVENTION' -- 4.6 PROBLEMS OF A 'PUBLIC HEALTH' APPROACH TO PROBLEMS OFCHILDREN IN SOCIETY -- 4.7 FREE AND NOT-SO-FREE CHOICES -- 4.8 THE 'EDUCATIVE CIVIL SOCIETY' AS REMEDY -- 4.9 BONDING AND BRIDGING -- 4.10 A SOCIAL-CRITICAL POINT OF VIEW -- 4.11 FINALLY: HOW DOES ONE STRENGTHEN THE EDUCATIVE CIVILSOCIETY? -- CHAPTER 5: SOCIALIZATION FOR THE COMMON GOOD: The case for a democratic offensive in upbringing and education. -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 THE COMMON GOOD AS THE GOAL OF CHILD-UPBRINGING -- 5.3 CHILDREN'S UPBRINGING AS ESSENTIAL INTEREST OF SOCIETY.

5.4 'DEMOCRATS ARE MADE, NOT BORN' -- 5.5 MORALIZING OR DEMOCRATIZING -- 5.6 FAMILY UPBRINGING AND DEMOCRACY -- 5.7 DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION IN PARENT-EDUCATION -- 5.8 THE PUBLIC CHILD AND THE 'SOCIALIZATION-GAP' -- 5.9 FINALLY: THE NEED FOR A DEMOCRATIC OFFENSIVE INUPBRINGING AND EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 6: EVIL AS A PROBLEM OF UPBRINGING AND SOCIALIZATION: Hate, dehumanization and an education that stands for the opposite -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES AND IMPROVING THE WORLD -- 6.3 THE ROOTS OF EVIL -- 6.3.1 Socio-political backgrounds -- 6.3.2 Worldviews -- 6.3.3 Hate -- 6.3.4 Sources of hate -- 6.3.5 Dehumanization and moral exclusion -- 6.3.6 'Killing with decency' -- 6.4. EDUCATIONAL REMEDIES -- 6.4.1 Influencing worldviews -- 6.4.2 Influencing psychological constructions -- 6.4.3 Influencing the social construction of cruelty -- 6.5 HUMAN RIGHTS AND CRITICAL IDEALISM -- 6.6 RAISING CHILDREN AGAINST EVIL -- REFERENCES -- NOTES.