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these changes had wide impact.
Questions: Did elites gain new power over the
masses in early modern Western society? Are
ordinary people more conservative by nature,
more suspicious of change, than groups at the
top? Can you describe at least two other his-
torical cases in which it is important to deter-
mine whether change was imposed on ordinary
people from above or whether ordinary people
themselves produced important innovations?
asses in early modern Western society?
e by nature or more suspicious of change, than groups at the top of society?