SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
 issue45E-government and democratic legitimacy in the partnership-based European constitutional stateFactors of social differentiation in Alcântara at the beginning of the 20th century: an analysis of declarations of occupation author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas

Print version ISSN 0873-6529

Abstract

SANTOS, Rui. Economics sociology of the modern latifundium: Economic institutions and social change in Southern Portugal, 17th-19th centuries. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2004, n.45, pp.23-52. ISSN 0873-6529.

The agrarian social structure currently known as latifundium that prevailed in the southern Portuguese of Alentejo well into the second half of the 20th century was an important structural feature in the shaping of contemporary Portuguese society. This article combines an economic sociology theoretical framework with empirical evidence from the region of Évora, from the late 16th to the mid-18th century, to highlight the social mechanisms explaining the sociogenesis of the modern latifundium.

Keywords : Agrarian structure; agrarian contracts; risk-sharing; market status.

        · abstract in Portuguese | French | Spanish     · text in English     · English ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License