Concept information
Preferred term
agrarian communities
Definition
- Agrarian communities evolve from small, landbased rural populations that are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture. A classic study of how agrarian communities work was conducted in the nineteenth century by the German sociologist Ferdinand Julius Tönnies (1855–1936), who studied gemeinschaft (versus gesellschaft) societies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Agrarian Communities]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/agrarian_communities
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