Life-Course Patterns and Peasant Culture in France

A Critical Assessment

Bibliographic Data

ID6079216
AuthorsM Segalen (0000-0002-5454-2142, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume12
Issue1-3
Pages213-224
Publication date1987-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319908701200112
OpenAlexW2046334955
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

French scholars of the family and peasant culture have made little use of the life-course framework of analysis. The present study argues that the concept of life course is not neutral and implies the possibility of free choice for the individual. Postulating such choices conflicts with the social organization of peasant society where individuals' lives are embedded in the family and the group. Examining the various stages of the life cycle, the study gives examples of the collective aspects of social life, and its various economic and cultural facets. It then investigates various factors leading to the break-up of communal life and the rise of individualism, which made the use of the life-course concept relevent to analysis

Economic growth · Economics · Individualism · Life course approach · Peasant · Political science · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Cultural Identity and Heritage · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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