POL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Protestantism, Agrarianism

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 307
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

Caused problems, some people wanted more change to try to alleviate. Some people wanted to stop the change. Americans went all the way with enlightenment thinking. French revolution 1789 also a product of the enlightenment. Enlightenment caused evolution in political and social ways, and revolution in other ways. The more people believe them, the more it gives them confidence that the could figure out how things worked and could change things. All of these new ideas that emerged from it and the things that it caused, caused disruption and stresses in societies stresses. Father of conservatism, he wrote and explained what conservative ideology is. Ideology grew out of the need to challenge liberalism. Conserve: keep things as they are, dont change things. Took on a political meaning during french revolution, preserve the system as it is. Edmund wrote about all the problems with the revolution. Protestant reformation/industrial revolution had an impact on development of ideologies.