SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wield, Conformity, Alexis De Tocqueville
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Note: new essay 2 deadline is dec. 1 at 11:59pm. Sympathy: in feudalism and aristocracy, you"re born into your ranks. You"re born into a shoemaking family; you die as a shoe maker. You"re born into aristocracy, you die into aristocracy. Letter from an aristocrat to her daughter read by prof. In this letter, the aristocrat tells her daughter about kissing the whole town but not another town because they drink wine. She also tells her about the cutting and exposing of body parts and a tax of 100, 000 franks that must be paid in 24 hours otherwise it"ll be double. Reserve: even though, we have obligations to one another in aristocracy; noble to peasant and peasant to noble; there"s a lack of understanding and lack of sympathy. We can imagine ourselves in the position of others in democracy, which lets us move with one another differently.
