Sociology and Space, No. 75-76, 1982.
Preliminary communication
Some Sociological Views on Inheritance on the Peasant Holding
Matija Golob
Abstract
It is not completely correct that
the modern technology of mass food
production has left the peasant
holding out. It is not always
profitable for large agroindustrial
business to produce everything from
the large assortment of agricultural
products, including sometimes even
milk and meat. This is not only
true of capitalistic countries, but of
socialist ones also, including
Yugoslavia. This is a paradox only
at first glance, and it demands
corresponding measures on the
plane of technology and economy,
and also on the plane of legality,
etc. The problems here are very
complex.
This article presents only some of
'the aspects of that complexity: in
the combination of one demographic
and one econometric parameter. A
mathematical-statistical model was
made, which enables, for certain
agrarian populations, the
establishment of the »optimal age
(in number of years) of those who
take over peasant farms, and those
who give them up«. Such
a model helps establish the »optimal
generation, i.e. inter-generation
divergence«, also expressed in
number of years. Many other very
different factors can also be
established, which are just as
important for research into some
concrete socioagrarian problems,
and for decision-making that will
ensure progress and change for the
better. Individual formulas within
the model can be applied quickly
in research projects into facts that
have already been established.
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Hrčak ID:
119611
URI
Publication date:
15.6.1982.
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