Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Today, sociologists would describe Tocqueville’s work as a study on democratic culture.
2. Today, sociologists would describe Tocqueville’s work as an institutional analysis of democratic government.
3. In comparing aristocracy with democracy, Tocqueville only theorized on the macro-level.
4. Perhaps because he was from an aristocratic family, in his work Tocqueville had little if any sense of social class.
5. According to Tocqueville, in France the lower classes were treated much better by the upper classes after the French Revolution because the aristocrats feared being overthrown again.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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