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The Basic Determinants of the Peasant's Way of Life
Stipe Šuvar
Sažetak
Rural communities differ from urban ones, not only by the means and
technology of production, the level of social division of labour, forms of social interactions and social organization, but also by the sociopsychological characteristics. There were many attempts, especially in the American sociology, to determine and enumerate the psychological characteristics of peasants (farmers) that make them specific, nearly peculiar »social character«. The author thinks that these attempts should be accepted with reserve. They are, as a rule, a product of not permissible acts of generalization. However, the American sociology in this respect is not original, because the same attempts we can find in the world literature from the oldest time. The
popular political movements in Europe in their time were pointing out the »merits« of a peasant. The author of this article considers, however, that one can speak about some »typical features« of peasantry, but providing we have in mind more or less indentical way of life within more or less indentical form of production and adequate social relations of the concrete peasantry. In that respect the author discusses in brief the following determinants of the sociopsychological
characteristics of peasantry: a) land and ownership, b) specific interactions and experience, c) work and environment, d) community and neighbourhood, e) the relative homogeneity and stability of the village social structure, f) family and specific relations of solidarity (about which Sorokin and Zimmerman were writing). Changes of these determinants and changes of their mutual relationship, results in changes of sociopsychological characteristics of peasantry.
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118244
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Datum izdavanja:
24.9.1965.
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