The Unsociable Frenchmen
Associations and Democracy in Historical Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4524059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Harrison (0009-0004-5993-7559, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 37-56 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-479X • E-ISSN: 1918-6649 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ttr.17.2.37 |
| OpenAlex | W3206965222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
If one hundred thousand Americans felt strongly about any single issue they would immediately form a voluntary association to promote their point of view among their fellow citizens. One hundred thousand Frenchmen with similarly strong feelings on the same subject would write individual letters to the prefect demanding his attention to the problem. Thus Alexis de Tocqueville disposed of the problem of association in France: Frenchmen were intrinsically resistant to association. Failing to understand the virtues of association, Frenchmen missed "the mother of all other forms of knowledge" necessary to democratic progress
Art · Association (psychology · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feeling · Library science · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Voluntary association · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2003 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |