Une démographie différentielle : clés pour un système auto-régulateur des populations rurales d'Ancien Régime - article ; n°1 ; vol.35, pg 3-41

Bernard Derouet

Description

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1980 - Volume 35 - Numéro 1 - Pages 3-41
A differential social demography : keys for a self-regulating system of Ancien Régime rural populations. B. Derouet.
Family reconstitution in four villages of XVIIIth century Thimerais and a confrontation of demographic data with socio-economic information provided by many tallage rolls, have enabled us to attemp a differential social demography. It seems that the essential difference between the demography of the day labourers and that of the husbandmen lies not so much in the specific rate (fertility, mortality, marriage rate) of each social category as in a clear opposition between these demographies with regard to their respective ability to vary according to the socio-economic situation and the population level. It is the day labourers' demography which, from one place to another, changes most and which thus plays the role of regulator of disequilibrium. The correlation of these demographic variations with the evolution of social structures and the economy in the XVIIIth century ultimately suggests comprehensive model of self-regulating system for the rural populations of the Ancien Régime. This model makes it possible to account both for the interaction between demographic and socio-economic phenomena within an overall structure, and for the fact that this structure is necessarily encompassed within a cyclical overall situation.
39 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: ANNALES_ECONOMIES_SOCIETES_CIVILISATIONS
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1980
• Nombre de lectures: 27
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait