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Agrarianism, in social and political philosophy, perspective that stresses the primacy of family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization.
Agrarianism emerged as a reaction against the rapid industrialization that many perceived as a threat to traditional farming and rural lifestyles. It emphasized the value of agricultural communities and sought to preserve their way of life amid increasing urbanization.
a social and political philosophy that views farming as intrinsically more valuable and rewarding than other occupations and lifestyles for both the individual and society. According to agrarian ideals, working on the land propagates moral character and leads to the development of a more responsible person capable of leading a more rewarding life.
1 sty 2019 · Agrarianism is an ethical perspective that privileges an agriculturally oriented political economy. At its most concise, agrarianism is “the idea that agriculture and those whose occupation involves agriculture are especially important and valuable elements of society” (Montmarquet 1989, viii).
Agrarianism is social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values. [1] . It stresses the superiority of a simpler rural life as opposed to the complexity of city life.
It is clear to us that, in the twentieth century, the agrarian question evolved far beyond the question of industrialization for its own sake. It is also clear that the motive forces of the progressive change have been the struggles against colonialism and its legacies.
Their use of the word, without a connotation of forced equalization, was apparently the sense of Noah Webster's definition in the first American dictionary (1806), in which he gave a nonradical, at least noncoercive, meaning to the word by defining it simply as "relating to an equal division of lands."
