Quiz 6 Flashcards
True or False? The Reign of Terror refers to the time immediately prior to the American Revolution.
False
True or False? Revolutionary change is most often organized from the lower classes, and all such changes depend on the success of the attempts of the new government to squash corruption.
False
According to sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, the ( ) was the bloodiest and most turbulent in our history
Twentieth century
What did Thomas Jefferson believe was the responsibility of government to those it governed?
To conform to the will of the majority
Although the new American government could have easily been taken over or supplanted, what helped defuse and prevent these types of conspiracies and cabals?
Concern for constitutionality
Which government document made human rights the philosophical basis of good governments departing significantly from past precedent and contemporary practice?
The Declaration of Independence
What was the Lockean attitude that many of the American revolutionaries possessed?
The revolutionaries saw the war as a necessary evil
What document enshrined the egalitarian spirit and slogan of the French revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
What was the Reign of Terror?
Robespierre’s response to rising political opposition
How do revolts differ from revolutions?
Revolts do not result in a change in the government
Which country’s revolution occurred with little or no bloodshed?
Soviet Union
Edmund Burke believed that political society is best founded on
Religion and tradition
What did Locke believe could serve as a deterrent to revolution?
The doctrine of rebellion
Karl Marx declared what to be the ultimate cause for all revolutions?
Inequality in wealth
After studying the Egyptian and Russian revolutions, what did James C. Davies conclude about revolutions?
They typically occur when conditions get better for a while and then suddenly turn worse.
How did Gurr and Gladstone reconceptualize the idea of a modern revolution?
As an interactive process that occurs over time
Unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution
Produced the first successful republican government
For a revolution to occur, theorists say that all of the following conditions must exist EXCEPT
Resistance by the existing government
The classical historical model of Barrington Moore views revolutions from the standpoint of
Changes in society due to technological changes
Crane Brinton posits that one of the causes of revolution is
Scholars give up on the way their society operates and transfer their allegiance to a revolutionary group
What is the role of the ruling class in Brinton’s theory of the causes of revolutions?
The ruling class objects to the emergence of a middle class
Actor-oriented theories focus on the following
The sorts of individuals or groups who commit revolutionary acts and why
Structural theories of revolution focus on the following
The creation and reproduction of social systems that is based in the analysis of both structure and agents
What are the main elements of conjunction theory?
Alienation, recruitment, ideological conversion, protest, structural conduciveness
Theories of revolution that seek to overcome the limitations of conjunction theories by emphasizing the notion of contingency are known as
Process theories
