Abstract
Widening of social space and crisis of peasant identity. The reproduction crisis of small and middle farmers is obviously - though not directly - related to economical factors. Children refusal to succeed their parents happens to be a refusal of their way of life. A sampling of 50-65 years-old farmers in Bresse and an inquiry among school-children of LEP and CES classes in Bresse about their professional future give the opportunity to catch various aspects of the discredit of farmer's profession among young people. This paper gives also a brief analysis of the causes of this crisis of traditional peasant identity (broadening of rural social space, emigration as well as education effects, and so on).

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