Peasants and peasant societies : selected readings af Teodor Shanin (Bog)

Forfatter: Teodor Shanin

Sprog: Engelsk

Antal sider: 497

Forlag: Penguin Books

Udgivelsesår: 1987

Titel: Peasants and peasant societies : selected readings

Udgave: Second Edition

Genre: Sociology/Anthropology

Sammendrag: The study of rural societies – and especially of the peasantry as affected by change – is one of the most rapidly developing areas of the contemporary social sciences. This growth is reflected in the new edition of Peasants and Peasant Societies, first published in 1971 and regarded since then as a sociological bestseller. The book looks at five main aspects of peasant life: social structure, economy, class, political action, and culture.

Teodor Shanin (1930–2020) was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class: Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910–25. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shanin moved to Russia where, with funding from The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and others, he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995. Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Type: Paperback