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The French Revolution was a culmination of many decades of ideological ferment, developments in political philosophy and social unrest. It began in the summer of 1789. The old order in Europe that had rested on kinship, land, feudal class structure, guild, religion and local community and monarchy were set free. -
The effect on society as a whole was enormous. The French Revolution, along with the American Revolution before that laid down the ‘political pattern of the modern world.’-
The twin revolution was perceived as bringing about a loss of an old world order. The problem the classical sociologists grappled with was the problem of order. The conflict between the two worlds as well as world-views was captured by two German terms gemeinschaft and gesellschaft.
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