This two-week institute will bring together 25 participants under the guidance of expert faculty. We will discuss Tocqueville's analysis of the American "social state," his term for the laws, customs, and ideas that form American democratic culture. We will pay particular attention to Tocqueville's analysis of equality (week one) and social capital (week two).
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NEH Institutes are dedicated to the study of texts and ideas central to undergraduate teaching in the
humanities. Their primary goal is not research. Instead, they aim to prepare participants to return
to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship.
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