Les études rurales en France

L. Levy-Strauss and Henri Mendras

Économie rurale, 1974, vol. 103

Abstract: Rural studies in France - Rural sociology as an independent subject is of recent date and tends to be a field of investigation for all the social sciences' - the rural sociologists working side by side with historians, geograpers, etchnologists and demographers. Experience of societies very different from those in France enables us to realise that even in our own country there remain differences and particularities worth investigation. The present trend towards a 'return to nature' and the preoccupation with the environment, the revolutionary, role of the peasant populations of the third world, unrest in farming communities in the West, the failures of socialist agriculture... give rise to a renewed interest in the historical role of the peasants, a subject often neglected before the fifties. A brief outline of the most significant tendencies of the research carried out bey French rural sociologists shows the great diversity of their attitudes and methodology, reflecting both the fact that farming societies in France are very, diverse and that the social sciences in France are flourishing.

Keywords: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1974
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