2004
Cairn
Josette Debroux, « The Creation of the French Ruralists Association: A Strategy for the Revalorization of Rural Studies? », L'Homme et la société, ID : 10670/1.f7593f...
The creation of the French Ruralists Association in 1974, by well-known sociologists and ethnologists who intended to organize and create « rural social sciences », can be interpreted as a strategy designed to revalorize a research field. The point of view of the founders relative to the state of « rural studies », congruent with the political and administrative point of view of the social sciences, reveals certain charactistics of this research field and the positions and dispositions of those who (or who claim to) represent it.