Description:
For the modernization of agriculture in France, the part of the J.A.C. Movement (Jeunesse Agricole Catholique, or Catholic Rural Youth) has been recognized as a decisive one. Its roots refer to the opposition between Republican France and Conservative France, which shared the peasant country through the Third Republic Regime. We have an idea of it through the inquiries done between 1950 and 1960 in the field of religious sociology. Since the beginning of the sixties, which shows « the end of the peasants » and the end of the J.A.C, the seniors of the movement became the managerial staff of professional organizations and concerted planning in the rural circles. The objective of the study group on the present heritage of the J.A.C. Movement in the Rhône-Alpes Region is to enlighten the mecanisms of micro-regional development, from studies conducted in rural catholic concentrations in the South-East of France.