The Adequacy of Social Science Models for the Study of Peasant Movements

A report on the utilization of social science literature on social movements as a for organizing and synthesizing research data on peasant movements forms the basis for this article. The author, who is not a methodologist, uses the term model to describe two types of analysis. The first, and most commonly encountered in the literature reviewed, considers to be a conceptual scheme which helps to account for the multiple factors that give rise to a social movement and affect its development or decline. Models in this sense are often referred to as accounting schemes. The second, and more formal, way in which the term is used refers to the end result of building and testing a mathematical with quantitative data in order to test empirical predictions. A few social scientists have been formulating such models in a preliminary fashion, and at least two (to my limited knowledge) have engaged in preliminary quantitative tests of their models. Additional types of models, such as those used in games theory, bargaining theory, and Marxist theory, fall outside the scope of this article

Peasant · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

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