SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: French Revolution, Bourgeoisie, Class Conflict
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What comes to mind when you think of social/political revolutions: french revolution, cuban revolution, these are prominent cases of social revolutions that come to mind. Social revolutions rapid, basic transformations of a society"s state and class structures. 2 key issues: structural changes of society and politics (social and political, occur together in a mutually reinforcing fashion. Social revolution must capture state power and reorganize political structures within that society: structural changes must occur. Ex. changes in class structure: grasp political power. Political revolutions transformation of state structure not social structures. Revolution in egypt : economic issues happening in their society = biggest issue, unequal distribution of economic resources. Political sociologists have developed a variety of theories to make sense of collective actions/revolutions. Major theories: marxist theory, aggregate-psychological theory, value consensus theory, political-conflict theory, state-centered structural perspective. Revolutions a class-based movements growing out of objective structural contradictions within historically developing and inherently conflict-ridden societies.
