| Titre | Rôle du mariage dans l'accumulation des patrimoines chez les agriculteurs | |
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| Auteur | Michèle Salitot-Dion | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1975, 16-1 | |
| Page | 59-78 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Michèle Salitot-Dion : The Role of Marriage in the Accumulation of Peasant Patrimonies.
By forgetting that marriage is the object of economic transactions for farmers, do we not neglect one of the mechanisms for reproduction of social and economic inequalities in the accumulation of inherited property ? The factorial analysis of the correlations between the value of inheritances, dowries and donations received by farmers and their wives shows that marriage unites partners with similar levels of wealth in 40% of the cases. Threequarters of goods inherited by farmers and their wives consist of property. From this fact there results an accumulation of these inheritances. Since the same capital does not have the same meaning in a region with large-scale holdings as in one with small-scale holdings, we have tried to eliminate the effect of the region's wealth. We observe a better correlation between fortunes inherited by marriage partners in rich regions. In this case, we wonder if, since the cultural models presiding over the choice of a spouse implicity refer back to an « order of things », marriage does not reproduce economic inequalities all the better inasmuch as economic hierarchies are rigid. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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