SOC201H1 Lecture 3: SOC201H1-Sep 19, Week 3
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Northrop fry hall 113, october 6 organizing an essay, september 29 making a thesis workshop. Alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), democracy in america (1835-1840): thought equality would lead more to more anarchy b/c there was no aristocracy to stop it. Sent to us to study the prison system, but had other motives. Believed us was equal country but stability. However the us that he visited was unequal in terms of native americans & african. Americans,, tocqueville isn"t blind in a few passages he is quite vocal about the ill treatment of. Native americans & african americans the two unlucky racesonly their misfortunes are alikeboth suffer from the effects of tyrannythe europeans make them into servants of convenience . He was only in america for 9 months & interacted w/ mostly white people. Tocqueville says that slaves accept their fate & respects and identifies with their masters. Frederick douglass, a former slave, published narrative of the former slave in which he says.