Attracted by its opposition to aristocratic society and espousal of the Enlightenment's values of 'liberty, equality, and fraternity', Wollstonecraft became an immediate and passionate friend of the French Revolution, seeing in it "a glorious chance to obtain more virtue and happiness than hitherto blessed our globe".
A reference group is a group that people compare themselves to—it provides a standard of measurement. In U.S. society, peer groups are common reference groups
