Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each development by which of the three revolutions behind sociology it belongs to.
Groups: Intellectual revolution · Political revolution · Socio-economic revolution
- Rail cuts haulage
- Social inequality
- Rule needs consent
- Estates abolished
- Textiles in mills
- Laws seen to vary
Hints
- Two items concern what people were allowed to think, two what they were allowed to do politically, and two where they worked.
- The abolition of legal privilege is a political act; the move into mills is an economic one.
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Intellectual revolution: Laws seen to vary, Social inequality
Political revolution: Estates abolished, Rule needs consent
Socio-economic revolution: Textiles in mills, Rail cuts haulage
Why
The three run together and reinforce one another, which is why separating them is a useful exercise rather than a pedantic one. The intellectual revolution supplied the assumption that society is lawful, the political revolution supplied the emergency, and the economic revolution supplied the raw material, a visibly new kind of society to describe.
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