Population, community and society in peasant societies
Robert Layton
In contrast to the two very similar definitions of population provided in previous chapters by a demographer and geographer, evolutionary biology is viewed as construct involving set organisms that share genetic ancestry interbreed. A community, on other hand, people with common interests, values distinctive patterns social interaction, often occupying single geographical area. Society consists all encompassed total, relatively self-sufficient network institutions within which their interactions take place. Peasant communities have been described ‘part societies’ (Redfield 1960). peasant cultivator whose productive activities are primarily directed toward his/her household's subsistence needs, but who under some degree economic political obligation powerful outsiders and/or carries out subsidiary production for market operating wider society. Peasants also interact daily basis members local community.
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