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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Characteristics of peasant societies.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

A peasant society is not simply an agricultural society. The concept names a specific structural type: cultivators who work the land with family labour, retain effective possession of it, and are subordinated to an external power that takes a share of what they produce. Robert Redfield, Eric Wolf and Teodor Shanin built the type; the…

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  • The family farm as the unit of production and consumption
  • Subsistence orientation with a marketed surplus
  • Structural subordination and the fund of rent
  • A part society with a part culture
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