Social structure referees to the people
way of life, and the social typical
expectations and functional requirements
regarding socially adaptive behavior
Social
structure is essentially adaptive to the
dominant mode of production in a society .
According Erich Fromm(1942), the concept integrates Maxi’s Theory concerning how
the mode of production frauds
concept of structure or
character.
While individual
character describes the richness
of the
character structure of an individual, the social character describes the emotional
attitudes common to people
Social
class or society. The social character
is acquired substantially in the family as an
agent of the society but also developed in other institutions of
society such as schools and
workplaces
The function of the
social character is to motivate
people to accomplish the expected social work and
interaction, education and consuming . arising in the interaction
of the
socio – economic social
structure and the social libidinous structure, the social character
makes it possible to use human energies
as a socially productive resources
Erich
Fromm, emphasizes the social necessities, which must
be obeyed by the members of a society. So that a society functions
adequately , their members must acquire
a character structure which
enables them to do what they need to do
in order to prosper. It is for example
expected in an authoritarian
society that people are motivated
to subordinate themselves to a hierarchy and fulfill
selflessly the instruction s
brought to them
So therefore, in a peasant society,
people are socialized to serve and to
work independently . thus the character
in every society is formed in such a
way that people quasi voluntarily.
And this peasant refers to any member of a class of person who till the social and small landowners
or as agricultural labourers.
T he
term peasant originally referred
to small scale agriculturalists in
Europe in historic times, but many other societies, both past and present, have hasd a pleasant class
or structure
In
a peasant society, the peasants
economy generally has a relatively
simple technology and a division of labour by age and sex.
The deuteron is the family or household
One distinguishing character or social structure
of peasant agriculture is self
sufficiency
The social structure of a peasant families in every society consume a
substantial part of what they produce,
and while some of their output may be
sold in the market, in a peasant society, their total production is
generally not which larger than what
is needed for the maintenance of
the family. Both productivity per worker
and yields per unit of
land are low.
Peasants are a class in
every society, have tended disappear as a society in
dustrialises. This is due to the mechanization of farming the resulting consolidation of
farming plots into larger units, and the
accompanying emigration of rural
dwellers to the cities
and other sites of individual employment.
Conclusion
The
small-scale agriculture associated with peasant labour is simply
too inefficient to be
economically viable in developed
countries. In a peasant society,
1.
Agricultural production is the only
real source of wealth
2.
There
is no manufacturing
3.
There
is no industry except small scale handcrafts
etc
References
Erich Fromm (1942)
character and Social process an appendix
to fear freedom ruffled search from Michael Maccoby social character in a mexican village prentice hall (1970) (printed by transactions press. (1996