Correct answer choice is :
B) A desire for personal gain over the common good
Step-by-step explanation:
As Democracy in America published, Tocqueville thought that equality was the great state and social concept of his period, and he thought that the United States allowed the most superior model of equality in action. He cherished American individualism but suggested that a society of individuals can easily become atomized and paradoxically consistent when every citizen, being conformed to all the rest, is lost in the crowd.