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Pour une sociologie des mondes agricoles dans la globalisation par Bertrand HERVIEU et François PURSEIGLE | Editions de l'EHESS | Études rurales

In contrast to those of other industrialized western European countries, France's agricultural community continued to represent the majority of the national population for a long time and only became one of many minority groups at the end of the twentieth century. It then came under the influence of various trends, sometimes conflicting but nevertheless presenting a certain sociological and political unity. With the weakening of the demographic, territorial, economic, and political foundations of the French agricultural population, rural sociologists are now required to present a new analysis and a revised assessment of its position in French society. The object of this article is to promote better understanding of the reasons behind the blurring of images and representations associated with French agriculture. It invites readers to review and understand the different facets of an imagery that presents a paradox compared with the ideological constructs associated with the historical record of farming and the farming profession. Working in the tradition of the French school of rural sociology, we have set out to offer a sense of the social realities that now represent the main areas of analysis for French and European rural sociology.

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Resumé Loin de l’idéal type de l’exploitation familiale autour duquel s’est construite la Pac, le paysage agricole européen est éclaté. La coexistence d’agricultures familiales en mutation avec un modèle de firme, mais aussi des agricultures de subsistance, appelle à revisiter les outils d’intervention publique.