Skocpol's Theory Characterize Actor Subjectivity

Great job! This is a truly excellent paper. Very insightful and well structured. The author presents a clear picture of the theories that he draws on to develop a coherent whole, and enough meaningful information is provided about each theory in an non-biased way for the readers to judge for themselves the theories ' relative merits and their logical connections. The empirical case serves well the author 's purpose, and as is the case with the theories, enough historical facts are available for an independent analysis of the event 's theoretical implications. Below I will ask a few questions the answers to which, hopefully, will make the logic of this paper even stronger and the example even more persuading. Firstly, how does Skocpol 's theory characterize actor subjectivity, if she ever characterizes it systematically at all? From the discussion of Skocpol 's work, it is clear that she refuses to equate revolution with an ideological movement aiming to alter the existent value orientation, nor is she willing to recognize the causality between a movement initiated by an angry mass and a social revolution (in fact, the distinction between a mass movement and "revolution" is worth exploring as revolution is the object of study and one of the central concepts in this paper. I think both structural features and ideology play a …show more content…
What is the "human nature" i.e., ego of the mulatto that conflicted with the old ideal type? How did the new ideal type of egalitarian value become commonly internalized as a desirable mode of social interaction, thereby overcoming the force of the ISAs? Do the identified state-state and state-class antagonisms play any part in the process? Lastly, to make the argument more logically compelling, the author may want to show us how the data could potentially be falsified to test out the hypothesis laid out by the