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Alexis de Tocqueville was a French sociologist and political theorist who traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he codified in his book “Democracy in America”. According to Tocqueville, the United States offered the most advanced example of equality in action and believed that equality was the great political and social idea of his era. He admired American individualism but warned that a society of individuals can easily become atomized and paradoxically uniform when “every citizen, being assimilated to all the rest, is lost in the crowd”.