La sociologie rurale et la question territoriale

De l'Évitement À La Réhabilitation

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ID2736962
AuthorsJean-Paul Billaud (Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces, corresponding author)
Year2009
Issue183
Pages113-128
Publication date2009-09-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueÉtudes rurales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-2182 • E-ISSN: 1777-537X
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/etudesrurales.8959
OpenAlexW1527331480
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited6

Rural sociology and the territorial question: from avoidance to rehabilitationDuring the formation of rural sociology, it was important to examine the concepts for staking out this new disciplinary field. Among them, the concept of "territory" was "repressed" because it referred to a paradigm of rural life too close to the idea of a "community" with its implications of a homology between a social group and a spatial unit. This review of a seminar devoted to "space" in the late 1970s shows how the reluctance to use this concept by researchers who, laying a claim to Marxism, were critical of the Mendrasian approach amounted to a rejection of it, the "territory" being synonymous with a closed "rural object". Nonetheless, the concept of "space" enabled these same social scientists to raise the question of nature, while starting a new research program on questions related to the environment. Confronted with this new approach, rural sociology has rehabilitated the concept of "territory", but of a territory with groups of action and no longer tainted by the idea of a "social totality". Rural sociology and the territorial question: from avoidance to rehabilitationDuring the formation of rural sociology, it was important to examine the concepts for staking out this new disciplinary field. Among them, the concept of "territory" was "repressed" because it referred to a paradigm of rural life too close to the idea of a "community" with its implications of a homology between a social group and a spatial unit. This review of a seminar devoted to "space" in the late 1970s shows how the reluctance to use this concept by researchers who, laying a claim to Marxism, were critical of the Mendrasian approach amounted to a rejection of it, the "territory" being synonymous with a closed "rural object". Nonetheless, the concept of "space" enabled these same social scientists to raise the question of nature, while starting a new research program on questions related to the environment. Confronted with this new approach, rural sociology has rehabilitated the concept of "territory", but of a territory with groups of action and no longer tainted by the idea of a "social totality

Discipline · Habilitation · Rural sociology · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · French Urban and Social Studies · Social Sciences and Governance

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