Social Control: Church, Charity and Education

Carol Beardmore ()
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Carol Beardmore: University of Leicester

Chapter Chapter 6 in Financing the Landed Estate, 2019, pp 167-198 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There is an overriding assumption that social control in nineteenth-century England was not simply about rule through the existing legal systems but was instead a range of interactions with social institutions. The concept of social control has risen in prominence from the 1970s onwards, but it lacks a precise definition, and this often limits its use as an analytical tool. F. M. L. Thompson in his article ‘Social Control in Victorian England’ argues that unsurprisingly those in positions of authority, power and influence sought to preserve and protect the status quo. In general, aspects of social control are usually considered in terms of manipulation of the propertyless masses in an increasingly urbanised environment. This chapter investigates how the estate sought to control the lower echelons of the rural community through church expansion, charity and education.

Keywords: Clergy; Church; Schools; Charity; Social control; Poor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14552-1_6

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