Peasantization
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌpɛzn̩tʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Peasantization is a noun meaning The process of creating a peasant class involved in small-scale agrarian practices.
Meaning
The process of creating a peasant class involved in small-scale agrarian practices.
Example Sentences
Indeed, in so far as the ‘peasantisation’ of the squires was in line with the basic peasant ideal of creating a society made up entirely of smallholding family farmers, it was even something to be welcomed.
At the same time, a strategy of peasantization might reduce (but this is by no means certain) or postpone (perhaps for a generation or so) the more acute social and political conflicts which are inherent in the process of marginalization.
Word Forms
- peasantisation
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include agrarianization, proletarianization, proletarization, semiproletariat, technocratization, mediocritization.
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