| Titre | Ambiguïtés des modèles et spécificité de la société martiniquaise | |
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| Auteur | François Gresle | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1971, 12-4 | |
| Page | 528-549 | |
| Résumé anglais |
François Gresle: Ambiguity of models and specificity of the Martinique society.
In this article, the author analyses the process of mutation in Martinique. It cannot be grasped out of the traditional social frames determined by the plantation, the economic unit of production, as well as the family and cultural unit. The originality of this colonial society rests upon imported European and African models which simultaneously influence the French West-Indians. At every level of social reality, the people of Martinique can choose between two contradictory value-systems which didn't allow a genuine community identity to develop. The present deep changes in the Carabbean cannot be considered out of the logic of plantation society because of its vivid abilities of adaptation and assimilation. However, the official structuring of this traditional French colony into a « département » played an important part in the advent of «leading» western-like social groups whose political influence is incessantly growing. In Martinique sociological mutations precede technical and economical mutations. This is one of the main contributions of this research centered more generally on the evolution of contemporary French West-Indian societies. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1971_num_12_4_2014 |
