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Paradoxes of Modernization: The new agrarian question and the peasant movement in Mexico
Author(s) -
GARCÍA DE LEÓN ANTONIO
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1995.tb00174.x
Subject(s) - modernization theory , peasant , agrarian society , movement (music) , political science , natural (archaeology) , social contract , law and economics , law , almost everywhere , set (abstract data type) , political economy , sociology , history , philosophy , agriculture , aesthetics , politics , computer science , mathematical analysis , programming language , mathematics , archaeology
The clauses of this [social] contract are so determined by the nature of the act that the slightest modification would make them vain and ineffective; so that, although they have perhaps never been formally set forth, they are everywhere the same and everywhere tacitly admitted and recognized, until, on the violation of the social compact, each regains his original rights and resumes his natural liberty, while losing the conventional liberty in favour of which he renounced it.