agrarian society

collocation in English

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agrarian
adjective
uk
/əˈɡreə.ri.ən/us
/əˈɡrer.i.ən/
relating to the land, especially the use of land ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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Property transmission within the family and kin groups - an allegedly pre-modern pattern - proves to be a concomitant of the modernization of anagrariansociety.
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A much higher explanatory power was found in land which is the most important indicator of wealth in thisagrariansociety.
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The premise of this system, which is akin to customary tenure, is that land ownership in a predominantlyagrariansocietymust be vested exclusively in the community.
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To act as the voice of manufacturing in anagrariansocietydeeply suspicious of the city and hostile to the goals of industrialism was a daunting prospect.
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That equality must relate to land in the circumstances of a largelyagrariansociety.
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Our affairs are now run on the basis of anagrariansociety, the springtime, the harvest and the rotation of crops.
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In a traditionallyagrariansocietymany social wants can he satisfied only through the family, and therefore persons seek to establish one as soon as possible.
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In anagrariansocietycultivating the land is the primary source of wealth.
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They were seen not merely as five crops chosen from many options but as the source permittingagrariansocietyand civilization itself.
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Irrigation systems were also developed at this time, which aided in the rise of anagrariansociety.
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In thisagrariansocietythe farm was the source of wealth, prosperity and a good life.
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The sharp mobilization of resources used in order to industrialize the heretoforeagrariansocietycreated a massive need for labor; unemployment virtually dropped to zero.
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Britannula is a thrivingagrariansocietywhose wealth is mainly based on sheep farming and the wool trade.
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In order to increase production anagrariansocietymust either increase the intensity of production or obtain more land to expand into.
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He discovered them to have anagrariansocietywith a sophisticated governmental system, complete with their own laws and religion.
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Nonetheless, sufficient deposits of petroleum and metals exist to supply a high-technologyagrariansociety, though not a high-technology industrial one.
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The government ideal of anagrariansocietyfailed to square with the reality of commercial distribution.
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Beingagrariansocietythere was no other economic activity.
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Thisagrariansocietyfunctions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.
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