Democracy in America

Democracy in America is important for the following reason: Tocqueville, in a way, was the first sociologist, though that field didn't exist in the 1830s, when he wrote the book. In it, he looks at the formal institutions of American democracy—Congress, and the presidency, and so forth—but what everybody really takes away from it is that those institutions ride on top of the morals and mores and habits of the underlying society.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Jul 20215yr