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inheritance and social organization among family farmers
Author(s) -
ROGERS SUSAN CAROL,
SALAMON SONYA
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.3.02a00080
Subject(s) - inheritance (genetic algorithm) , conformity , genealogy , proposition , agriculture , geography , range (aeronautics) , social organization , sociology , social science , biology , political science , history , law , archaeology , gene , biochemistry , philosophy , materials science , epistemology , composite material
Comparative analysis of two French farming communities and two communities of Illinois grain farmers indicates that a similar range of variation in social organization is to be found at different levels of economic development. This is explained by the proposition that agriculturalists in all four communities share, as family farmers, a common set of fundamental concerns and a limited range of responses to them. Two contrasting French/American pairs may be distinguished according to preferred inheritance strategies and are shown to be distinguishable according to demographic traits as well. A second set of opposing French!American pairs, defined according to degree of conformity to ideal inheritance systems, are found to be associated with contrasting patterns of social relations. [farmers, inheritance, family relationships, agricultural development, North America, western Europe]