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Liberalism and the ego -- Social responsibility and free will -- Social poisons and contagion -- Modern diseases in the national identity -- Eliminating threats to the state -- Passion in a state of reason -- Conclusion

In nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, "institutions of deposit" were often used instead of jails to house women who were in trouble with their husbands and the authorities, and therefore had to be interred while awaiting trial or for other reasons. The public nature of these institutions was seen as crucial for the shaming of women and for the development in them of a sense of repentance and reform. They can thus be interpreted as an important link in a chain of formal institutions and informal pressures that enforced male authority.

Almost all literature on immigration in the context of assimilation addresses itself either directly or indirectly to values. While material is more often available for examining assimilation's external manifestations, such as frequency of intermarriage with the native population, degree of participation in the institutions of the host country, and willingness to adopt its language, these manifestations inevitably turn around the more amorphous question of native and immigrant values. More fundamental than social patterns, values determine whether an immigrant will learn the new language or will intermarry with the long-term residents of the host country.