In 1841 he was elected to the Académie française. The success of this work, an early model for the science that would become known as sociology, led him to be named chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) in 1837, and to be elected the next year to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He published his master-work, De la démocratie en Amérique, in 1835. He met the English economist Nassau William Senior in 1833, and they became good friends and corresponded for many years. Back in France, Tocqueville became a lawyer.
During this trip, they wrote Du système pénitentiaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application (1832). Both were sent to the United States to study the penitentiary system. There, he met Gustave de Beaumont, a prosecutor substitute, who collaborated with him on various literary works.
After obtaining a law degree, Alexis de Tocqueville was named auditor-magistrate at the court of Versailles. He retired from political life after Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's Decemcoup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I. An eminent representative of the classical liberal political tradition, Tocqueville was an active participant in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849–1851) which succeeded to the February 1848 Revolution. In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies.ĭemocracy in America (1835), his major work, published after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. An eminent representative of the classical liberal political tradition, Tocqueville was an active participant in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and then during the Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (J– April 16, 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 18) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). Democracy in America (1835), his major work, published after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies. Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (J– April 16, 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 18) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
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