SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Centralisation, Statism, Presupposition
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Tocqueville: why was there a revolution in france, why was there no political liberty in france. 1-10-12: the us doesn"t really deal in a world with which tocqueville is concerned, us is born free but. France in a world of feudalism and aristocracy: can you move from an aristocratic world to a new world and have political liberty, institutions. In france everything is centralised, unlike the us which had administrative de- centralisation. Attempt of te french state to produce a centralised top-down system such that everything has 1 channel of communication. Towns lose their liberties, aristocrats lose their function, they no longer run local government, it is the opposite of the us, moving away from any form of associational life. In terms of income, there starts to be very considerable similarity between the middle class and the aristocracy. The second chapter said they were split apart and distrusted each other, because the.
