In subject area: Agricultural and Biological Sciences Simple agrarian society: a society that cultivates the land with plows and draft animals but that lacks iron tools and weapons. From: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001 ...
which first appeared in German in 1897 and was reissued in 1909 - represents a fascinating and rigorous exercise to bring the newly forged concepts of sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia and Egypt, Hebrew society in Israel, the city-states of classical Greece, the Hellen...
Agrarian History and Rural Sociology in Spaindoi:10.1080/13608740408539564MichaelRichardsInformaworldSouth European Society & Politics
An agrarian society is a society whose economy and wealth is primarily based upon agriculture. Agrarian societies have been around for at least five thousand years. In fact, they still exist today. Nearly every civilization has spent some time as an agrarian society. The ancient Egyptian, Indian...
What makes this volume so compelling is the extent to which the various fields of history, economics, political science, and sociology are integrated and employed. Hopcroft demonstrates that a key factor in agrarian development was the rural economic organization or "field system," which varied ...
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Taking social relations within and between classes and groups in society as a focus of inquiry, agrarian political economy necessarily takes 'class relations' – and class struggles – as the fundamental reference points, aware that there have been serious debates as to what these mean, how they...
2008 Rural Sociological Society Issue Rural Sociology Volume 73, Issue 3, pages 370–413, September 2008Additional Information(Show All) How to CiteAuthor InformationPublication History How to Cite Sonmez, A. (2008), The Effects of Violence and Internal Displacement on Rural-Agrarian Change in Tu...
Bronson, K., and I. Knezevic. 2016a. Big data in food and agriculture.Big Data and Society3(1):1–5.https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716648174. Bronson, K., and I. Knezevic. 2016b. Food studies scholars can no longer ignore the rise of big data. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue Ca...
African society is facing a “perfect storm” of climate change, a growing population, and a shrinking supply of natural resources. The agricultural transition in many African countries has not met expectations despite decades of development programs including the Washington Consensus, the liberation of...