Les agriculteurs et la solidarité nationale : vers un nouveau modèle ?

The idea of solidarity may be defined as well a normative reference, i.e. a system of orientations that organizes the relationships between particular segments of society, as as a set of welfare institutions. In France, the organization of welfare for farmers was historically and sociologically embedded in a corporative and protective set of orientations that explains its maintained specificity. This particularity is currently objected to. This is due on one hand to the transformations of agriculture itself, which is bound to norms of competitiveness and, on another hand, to the shift of the normative orientations of the Welfare state itself, that now links solidarity with expected counterparts from the beneficiaries themselves.