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Past and Future of Rural Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Henri Mendras
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Industrial societies are seeking a civilization for which they have not as yet found a firm framework of moral and social values, nor definite forms of social life. That is why traditional peasant values and ways of life, and social institutions in rural communities, still appeal so strongly to emotion and remain so strikingly evocative in our urbanized, industrialized world. Village society is still seen as an ideal—and often idealized—social model; industrial societies would like to have something comparable in their vast cities.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 18 , Issue 69 , March 1970 , pp. 126 - 143
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Copyright © 1970 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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