Free University Berlin

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    “There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.”
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    “In bourgeois society, the French and the industrial revolution transformed the authorization of political space. The political revolution put an end to the formalized hierarchy of the ancien regimé.... Concurrently, the industrial revolution subverted the social hierarchy upon which the old political space was based. It transformed the experience of society from one of vertical hierarchy to one of horizontal class stratification.”
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    “Still they raised a family doin’ what comes natur’lly.”
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