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Peasant Fatalism and Socio-economic Innovation

Human OrganizationPublished 1 December 1966
Arthur H. Niehoff, Jamie E. Anderson
Citations6
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Abstract

Of the several types of negativism encountered among non-Western peoples, one of the most frequent and significant is fatalism. A number of social scientists have described fatalism as a barrier to change in peasant societies.

Keywords

Agricultural and Biological SciencesBusiness, Management and Accounting