French Revolution Social Class Analysis

Through the origin of society, our civilization witnessed the coming and going of class distinction. The social class is a system of social classification that assigns different values upon different groups of people in any particular societies. People are grouped into a set of hierarchy with different standards of living, ranking, and benefits in the community. During the French period ruling by Louis XVI, the social order divided into three different groups, which are First, Second, and Third Estate. The French revolution eventually occured when social conflict between these classes have reached climax. This revolution was a great example reflecting a theme of the social order dysfunction in society, and how Thomas Hobbes's theory of the …show more content…
For example was the system of a king ruler and his commoners. For many centuries, the system of feudalism was a dominant social system in Europe. This relationship is a production exchange between the landowner and peasant. The French monarchy was a feudal society in the eighteenth century. The ruling system however became obsolesce, and this system turned into a tool for the king and the First Estate to extract self-interest from the people - the Third Estate. Within the French Revolution, the people stood up to declared a new government to overthrow the Louis XVI and its class system. According to Sieyes, author of What is the Third Estate …show more content…
The French revolution act was not only a model of class struggle in society, but also reveal a new wave of governing in Europe. It revealed a new model of government that is speak more to the mass. The state should be governed not solely in the benefit for one class, and it should benefit the people in the