Sullivan, William M. (2005) Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America.

Prompt: In your reading for this module, Sullivan discusses Alexis de Tocqueville classic study of life in America during the Jacksonian era, Democracy in America. De Tocqueville interpreted the new democratic country he saw as a glimpse of the likely future of all modern nations. He emphasized the distinction between the aristocratic model of European society where people lived according to inherited codes and bound into a stratified order and the democratic society he saw in America. His perspective made him particularly aware of potential weaknesses and challenges to a democratic society.Discuss the problems de Tocqueville recognized and the potential role of the liberal arts in addressing them.