SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: House Of Bourbon, Alexis De Tocqueville, Mccarthyism
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24-09-12: if you really think about knowledge, you know almost nothing , smith"s world is balanced, calm, tocqueville"s is about passion. Came from a noble family, little village, hill: in 1850 the bourdon dynasty is restored, his family became loyal to the newly founded regime, adored rousseau and pascale. No writer of the period can show more sympathy/ contempt for the way slaves and. As an aristocrat, toc is aware there will be trouble in the us as long as there is slavery: contrast between political liberty is despotism. He knew personally from what happened in 1851: he"s also writing about a social contrast between the aristocratic world and the era of equal. The entry of people into politics (equal social conditions) or liberal constitutional regimes: aristocratic world: can have a certain amount of liberty, a despotic world is one where all the equal remain in one hand. Generation before wanted hope, they had opened hearts.
