Question

Difference between peasant society and agrarian society

Answer 1

An agrarian society (or agricultural society) is any society whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland. Another way to define an agrarian society is by seeing how much of a nation's total production is in agriculture. In an agrarian society cultivating the land is the primary source of wealth. Such a society may acknowledge other means of livelihood and work habits but stresses the importance of agriculture and farming. Agrarian societies have existed in various parts of the world as far back as 10,000 years ago and continue to exist today. They have been the most common form of socio-economic organization for most of recorded human history.
The peasant society, is a small-scale social organisation in which peasantspre-dominate the features distinctive from other social groupings. Or sometimes the term is used to refer to a large society which peasants are the majority, most usages would limit the term to a narrow meaning approximating to community.