paysan

OBS: Paysan a eu dans le passé une nuance vaguement péjorative [...] La vigoureuse évolution politique et sociale de cette classe a fait disparaître cette nuance, mais certains des intéressés ne veulent plus être appelés des paysans mais des agriculteurs.

CONT: Peasants are usually seen as forming part of a structured society, within which they fall between the aristocracy or great landowners, on the one hand, and the landless, on the other ... With regard to the land which they till the legal status of peasants may be that of proprietors, tenants, or crop sharers.
OBS: The peasant, conceptualized as an ideal type, is locally bound to his subsistence economy, whereas the farmer is ideally conceptualized as a producer for commercial agriculture and the larger world.
OBS: The term ""peasant"" has a pejorative connotation among certain national groups but is used extensively in the literature, especially by anthropologists, without any deprecatory meaning.