A note on the definition of peasantries

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Abstract
More important than an abstract definition of ‘the peasantry’ is the development of typologies of rural socio‐economic groupings. Such typologies should facilitate controlled comparisons between societies whose rural sociology reveals broadly similar structures. They might include the following features: the internal composition of the so‐called peasant sector; the relationships of different parts of that sector to other, non‐peasant rural groups; the social‐relational uses made of traditional cultural forms in rural community life, for handling linkages between different parts of the peasantry and between peasants and non‐peasants; and the historical development of the peasant sector.

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