A revolution is defined as a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favour of a new system. Crane Brinton believes that all major revolutions have 8 detailed stages, and I decided I wanted to find out if all (or at least most) revolutions follow his theory. 

  After researching a whole bunch about revolutions and the stages they went through, I decided that Brinton’s theory doesn’t apply to all revolutions. An example is the iPhone. His theory states that there is four stages, and the iPhone doesn’t really follow any of them. Many people believe the iPhone is revolutionary, because of the impact it has had on our world, however it doesn’t follow the theory. Another example is cars. Once again, they don’t follow his theory because there is no violence, protestation, etc on the creation of cars.  

  I think because of the amount of smaller revolutions that don’t follow his theory, his thteory is based on bigger war revolutions such as the French and American Revolution, but not targeted at more modern day revolutions such as the iPhone, social media, gay marriage rights, etc. I’m curious if this theory would’ve been altered if he was alive now a days, because like I said, the smartphone isn’t a violent or protestant material, but it sure is a major 21st century revolution. 

  Of course these “revolutions” follow some of his steps in the theory, but I mean, none of them follow them all. So what do we call them? Events? That just doesn’t sound right. I guess in conclusion, Brinton’s Theory was only targeted at large world revolutions.