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THE PERSONALITY OF THE PEASANT

Cvetko Kostić

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The article discusses several problems relating to the personality of the
peasant. They include positive and negative stereotypes about the peasant’s
personality, about the status and role of the peasant, and about concrete research
work on this problem by social psychologists and rural sociologists.
The positive stereotypes about the peasant’s personality are very numerous
and they vary in nature and importance. They are economic and demographical,
moral and sociological. Such stereotypes have sometimes influenced ideological
views and positions based on the physiocratic and romantic ideas about the
primacy of land cultivation, the purity of the work and the morals of the peasant,
his creative potentialities in folk art, etc. However, industrial development has
produced an increased number of negative stereotypes, which regard the peasantry
as an outdated category, see a considerable degree of crudeness and backwardness
in the peasant’s personality, and believe that it is »better for society if there are
fewer peasants«.
Investigations by social phychologists and rural sociologists of the peasant’s
personality are still comparatively rare and they often tend to accept either the
positive or the negative stereotypes and can thus hardly serve as a scientific basis
either for theoretical generalization or for practice.

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Hrčak ID:

121360

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/121360

Datum izdavanja:

9.7.1968.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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