2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Restructuring Tocqueville's Social Theory : A Study of New Kind of Poverty in 19th-Century France and England
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22730415
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAYAMA Yuji 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 助教 (90453969)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | トクヴィル / 貧困問題 / ロマン主義 / 19世紀 / 精神病 / 個人主義 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research is to restructure Tocqueville's social theory in the historical context of nineteenth century France and England. The industrialization of 19^<th> century Europe, especially in England and France, had brought about new kind of poverty as well as so-called pauperism. Tocqueville called it 'misere intellectuelle' and considered it the threat to individual liberty. In the process of this two-year research, it has become clear that Tocqueville had structured his social theory mainly about new kind of poverty and it had have much in common with social analysis by romantic writers such as Hugo and Balzac.
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