Revolution
A Revolution is a system change that is a sudden change.
- Context:
- It can range from being an Unplanned Revolution to being a Planned Revolution.
- It can be espoused by a Revolutionary.
- It can range from being a Social Revolution (such as a political revolution) to being an Commercial Revolution (such as an economic revolution or a digital revolution).
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Industrial Revolution, IT Revolution.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/revolution Retrieved:2016-12-10.
- A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in political power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time when the population rises up in revolt against the current authorities.
Aristotle described two types of political revolution:
- Complete change from one constitution to another
- Modification of an existing constitution. [1]
- Revolutions have occurred through human history and vary widely in terms of methods, duration, and motivating ideology. Their results include major changes in culture, economy, and socio-political institutions.
Scholarly debates about what does and does not constitute a revolution center on several issues. Early studies of revolutions primarily analyzed events in European history from a psychological perspective, but more modern examinations include global events and incorporate perspectives from several social sciences, including sociology and political science. Several generations of scholarly thought on revolutions have generated many competing theories and contributed much to the current understanding of this complex phenomenon.
- A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in political power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time when the population rises up in revolt against the current authorities.
- ↑ Aristotle, The Politics V,http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.5.five.html accessed 2013/4/24
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/revolution#Types Retrieved:2016-12-10.
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There are many different typologies of revolutions in social science and literature. For example, classical scholar Alexis de Tocqueville differentiated [1] between political revolutions, sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society, and slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about (e.g., religion). One of several different Marxist typologies divides revolutions into pre-capitalist, early bourgeois, bourgeois, bourgeois-democratic, early proletarian, and socialist revolutions. [2] Charles Tilly, a modern scholar of revolutions, differentiated [3] between a coup, a top-down seizure of power, a civil war, a revolt and a "great revolution" (revolutions that transform economic and social structures as well as political institutions, such as the French Revolution of 1789, Russian Revolution of 1917, or Islamic Revolution of Iran). [4] Other types of revolution, created for other typologies, include the social revolutions; proletarian or communist revolutions (inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism); failed or abortive revolutions (revolutions that fail to secure power after temporary victories or large-scale mobilization); or violent vs. nonviolent revolutions. The term revolution has also been used to denote great changes outside the political sphere. Such revolutions are usually recognized as having transformed in society, culture, philosophy and technology much more than political systems; they are often known as social revolutions. [5] Some can be global, while others are limited to single countries. One of the classic examples of the usage of the word revolution in such context is the Industrial Revolution, or the Commercial Revolution. Note that such revolutions also fit the "slow revolution" definition of Tocqueville. [6]
A similar example is the Digital Revolution.
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- ↑ Roger Boesche, Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism, Lexington Books, 2006, ISBN 0-7391-1665-7, Google Print, p.86
- ↑ J. Topolski, "Rewolucje w dziejach nowożytnych i najnowszych (xvii-xx wiek)," Kwartalnik Historyczny, LXXXIII, 1976, 251-67
- ↑ Charles Tilly, ''European Revolutions, 1492-1992, Blackwell Publishing, 1995, ISBN 0-631-19903-9, Google Print, p.16
- ↑ Bernard Lewis, "Iran in History", Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University
- ↑ Irving E. Fang, A History of Mass Communication: Six Information Revolutions, Focal Press, 1997, ISBN 0-240-80254-3, Google Print, p. xv
- ↑ Warwick E. Murray, Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0-415-31800-9, Google Print, p.226