Word: tocquevillian
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...Gramscian or a Tocquevillian...
...happening is "an isolated event...[for] each individual fact mirrors and illuminates the whole." Such a universalizing synecdoche may seem extreme at first, but actually outlines a method of social theorizing that could lead many volunteers to a clearer understanding of their service. As John Boesche explicates the Tocquevillian method of social analysis, society "resembles a delicately balanced mobile in which every aspect settles into its position as a result of the compromise and influence of every other...
...town manager who are all more directly involved in running the town. The town meeting has representatives(199 in all) from nine precincts, and we review the decisions of the other bodies, and we sign off on the town budget. Lexington government is almost a Social Studies 10 Tocquevillian notion of institutional levels and divisions to prevent tyranny of the majority...
...world is very complex. Recognizing that there are more ways to write a bad and dishonest book than being paid to do so hardly takes us down the path of obliterating the differences between liberal societies and their enemies. Liberal societies rest, in part, on the skeptical, conservative, very Tocquevillian, and Hoffmannesque awareness, that human nature finds many ways to fall short of the norms we would all like to realize. Jeffrey Herf Center for International Affairs
...ordinariness of the Negro's experience says much about the Tocquevillian quality of frontier democracy. Negro cowhands rarely rose to the rank of trail foreman, and occasionally they were molested by rebels who had forgotten Appomattox, but most of them met with very little discrimination. The settlers of Wyoming voluntarily desegregated their first public school. Negroes won tall-tale reputations as cooks and bulldoggers, and as con-men and outlaws too. As Durham and Jones unfelicitously put it, "To be a good cowboy one needed first of all to be a good man, for a wild longhorn had no more...