The family farms: between permanence and evolution. ethno-sociological approach - Organization of labour in agriculture has known new trends for the 30 years. The modernization of agricultural farms since the mid-sixteen in France in consolidated around family farm; thus, one refutes the idea that the family constitutes an obstacle to the technical progress and to reconversion. We hypothesize the fundamental role of family structures which have been adapted to the new conditions of production, to the institutional, the climatological and social-economic constraints. This paper traces the principal watersheds in the evolution of gouvernmental ideas and attitudes concerning agriculture and its relationship to family.
