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  2. Vanguardism - Wikipedia

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    In the praxis of revolutionary political science the vanguard party was composed of professional revolutionaries, first effected by the Bolshevik Party in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin, the first leader of the Bolsheviks, coined the term vanguard party, and argued that such a party was necessary in order to provide the practical and ...

  3. Revolutionary - Wikipedia

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    The revolutionary anarchist Sergey Nechayev argued in Catechism of a Revolutionary: "The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution.

  4. Sociology of Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of Revolution is a 1925 book by Russian American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin. Sociology of revolution as a branch of sociology was developed by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan [1] to a certain extent earlier than Sorokin. Hobbes lived and created in the period of the English Revolution.

  5. Social revolution - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] She comes to this definition by combining Samuel P. Huntington's definition that it "is a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership, and government activities and policies" [5] and Vladimir Lenin's, which is that revolutions ...

  6. History of sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism.

  7. Revolutionary movement - Wikipedia

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    Charles Tilly defines it as "a social movement advancing exclusive competing claims to control of the state, or some segment of it". [1] Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper define it more simply (and consistently with other works [2] [need quotation to verify]) as "a social movement that seeks, as minimum, to overthrow the government or state".

  8. Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Sun Yat-sen, leader of the Chinese Xinhai Revolution in 1911. Khana Ratsadon, a group of military officers and civil officials, who staged the Siamese Revolution of 1932. Political and socioeconomic revolutions have been studied in many social sciences, particularly sociology, political science and history. [25] Scholars of revolution ...

  9. Ruling class - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, the ruling class of a society is the social class who set and decide the political and economic agenda of society.. In Marxist philosophy, the ruling class are the class who own the means of production in a given society and apply their cultural hegemony to determine and establish the dominant ideology (ideas, culture, mores, norms, traditions) of the society.