Peasant society and clientelist politics.

摘要: The basic social relations of peasant life are directly related to an environment characterized by extreme scarcity. major factor productive wealth in agriculture is land, which the has little or no free access. Labor—his own, and that his family members—is available peasant, but this relatively unproductive must be applied land order generate wealth. Few other outlets for labor employment him. When able combine a wealth-generating endeavor, productivity likely extremely low, due limiting factors such as technology, capital, marketing information, credit. All these aspects hold down peasant's income preclude savings. He is, word, poor.Furthermore, powerless against many threats abound environment. There disease, accident, death, among natural threats. violence, exploitation, injustice at hands powerful, human knows environmental constellation dangerous. also there he can do about situation, and, accordingly, culture often features themes vulnerability, calamity, misfortune. As George Foster neatly summarized if, outlook situation engenders “Image Limited Good.”