De Tocqueville Noted That Both French and German Peasants Had

question 29

Multiple Choice

De Tocqueville noted that both French and German peasants had lived in poverty, but only the French peasants overthrew their king in a revolution. The reason, de Tocqueville said, was that the living conditions of the French had been improving, while those of the Germans had not. Improved circumstances can fuel human desire for even greater advances, according to

• A) declining privilege theory.
• B) relative deprivation theory.
• C) common sense.
• D) ideological commitment theory.

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