Sentence examples for peasant societies from inspiring English sources

Peasant societies also became stratified.

It is true that support from the extended family, often enforced by local custom and religious beliefs, contributes to the survival of peasant societies.

Hobsbawm defines social banditry as those "not regarded as simple criminals by public opinion", representing as they do "a form of individual or minority rebellion within peasant societies".

Until this time, however, clientelistic practices had generally been considered part of a "traditional" stage of political and social evolution, of which peasant societies on the periphery of Europe were considered prime examples.

The problem is partly that the confused fighting in the east hardly lends itself to conventional military narrative; partly that Hastings has only a superficial knowledge of the peasant societies of eastern Europe from which the unwilling soldiery was mostly drawn.

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Peasant society doesn't exist anymore.

Las tierras flacas (1962; The Lean Lands) shows the effect of industrialization on a peasant society.

They'd educated a peasant society till it was bristling with science degrees.

Trying to leap from a peasant society to industrial America, many Hmong ended up in poverty or on welfare.

Or it could be because it is no longer a peasant society ruled by its army, but a dynamic nation with a strong civil society.