{"id":45609,"date":"2026-08-15T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45609"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:48:21","slug":"democracy-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45609","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Alexis de Tocqueville<\/p>\n<h2>Synopsis<\/h2>\n<p>Tocqueville analyzes American democracy by examining political institutions alongside customs, religion, voluntary associations, local government, equality, and everyday social relationships. He was especially interested in how democratic equality changes people&#x27;s attitudes and behavior.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to Sociology<\/h2>\n<p>The book anticipated many central concerns of modern sociology, including civil society, social capital, individualism, majority power, and the relationship between culture and institutions. It remains a major comparative study of democratic society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Synopsis Tocqueville analyzes American democracy by examining political institutions alongside customs, religion, voluntary associations, local government, equality, and everyday social relationships. He was especially interested in how democratic equality changes people&#x27;s attitudes and behavior. Why It Matters to Sociology The book anticipated many central concerns of modern sociology, including civil society, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Democracy in America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}