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Diffusion Research in Rural Sociology: The Record and Prospects for the Future » Read Now
by Frederick C. Fliegel. 138 pgs.

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Fliegel overviews and summarizes research on the spread of innovations through rural populations. The volume begins with a look at the discovery of diffusion as a patterned process in the 1940s and examines the creation of the classical model to explain diffusion as a transfer of information...
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Fliegel overviews and summarizes research on the spread of innovations through rural populations. The volume begins with a look at the discovery of diffusion as a patterned process in the 1940s and examines the creation of the classical model to explain diffusion as a transfer of information. Fliegel then notes how the classical model changed to accommodate the particular socioeconomic condition when the model was applied to developing countries after 1945. He concludes by commenting on the revival of interest in diffusion research, the further development and refinement of the classical model, and the modern emphasis on conservation-oriented innovations rather than on innovations that enhance production.
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Changing Rural Social Systems: Adaptation and Survival » Read Now
by Nan E. Johnson, Ching-li Wang. 258 pgs.

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Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers...
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Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers to both questions invite new propositions on how rural social systems are organized.
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Rural Communities: Legacy & Change » Read Now
by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Jacqueline D. Spears, Louis E. Swanson. 334 pgs.

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The Community in Rural America » Read Now
by Kenneth P. Wilkinson. 150 pgs.

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This study examines the critical state of rural life in America, its causes and possible cure. First reviewing existing research and theories on the subject, Wilkinson identifies characteristic rural conditions that block community development and the enhancement of economic, social, and educational...
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This study examines the critical state of rural life in America, its causes and possible cure. First reviewing existing research and theories on the subject, Wilkinson identifies characteristic rural conditions that block community development and the enhancement of economic, social, and educational opportunities for rural people. His analysis focuses on community interaction as a necessary basis for social well-being, pinpoints fruitful areas of research, and suggests policy initiatives needed to save a rural way of life.
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Rural Data, People, and Policy: Information Systems for the 21st Century » Read Now
by James A. Christenson, Richard C. Maurer, Nancy L. Strang. 248 pgs.

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Rural Policies for the 1990s » Read Now
by Cornelia B. Flora, James A. Christenson. 376 pgs.

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The Sociology of Agriculture (Includes discussion of rural sociology in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Frederick H. Buttel, Olaf F. Larson, Gilbert W. Gillespie Jr. 292 pgs.

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Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rural Sociological Society, this monograph analyzes the nearly 90 years of rural sociological research on agriculture. The authors' aim throughout is to convey both continuities and discontinuities in theory, method, and approach that have...
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Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rural Sociological Society, this monograph analyzes the nearly 90 years of rural sociological research on agriculture. The authors' aim throughout is to convey both continuities and discontinuities in theory, method, and approach that have characterized the field as it has developed. Intended primarily as a straightforward exposition of major scholarly themes, the study is organized around the three major eras of rural sociological research identified by the authors: the initial period from 1900 through the early 1950s; the social psychological/behaviorist emphasis between the early 1950s and the early 1970s, and the "new rural sociology" of the past decade.
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Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940-1990 » Read Now
by Mark A. Fossett, M. Therese Seibert. 285 pgs.

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Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 » Read Now
by Katherine Jellison. 240 pgs.

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A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society (Chap. Eight "Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy") » Read Now
by Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, Henry A. Walker. 348 pgs.

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Leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity & inequality in our society. Using the latest theory & research, the authors show how different groups become socially & economically unequal & how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national.
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Gender and the Family Labor System: Defining Work in the Rural Midwest » Read Now
by Mary Neth. 15 pgs.

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...Farm Family Land Transfers;" Rural Sociology 45 #2 (1980): 290-308; and Sonya...Ownership Patterns," in Research in Rural Sociology and Development, ed. Harry K...the...
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Rural Sociology: The Strategy of Change (1957) » Read Now
by Charles P. Loomis, J. Allan Beegle. 494 pgs.

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...RURAL SOCIOLOGY The Strategy of Change Charles P. Loomis J. Allan Beegle RURAL SOCIOLOGY THE STRATEGY OF CHANGE PRENTICE-HALL...STATES OF AMERICA 78442 Foreword Rural...
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Rural Social Systems: A Textbook in Rural Sociology and Anthropology (1950) » Read Now
by Charles P. Loomis, J. Beegle Allan. 878 pgs.

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...SOCIAL SYSTEMS A TEXTBOOK IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY by CHARLES...of research findings than in rural sociology. During the 40-year period in which rural sociology...
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Reflexivity, Sociology and the Rural-Urban Distinction in Marx, Tonnies and Weber, in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology » Read Now
by Kieran Bonner. 25 pgs.

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Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment » Read Now
by Carolyn E. Sachs. 224 pgs.

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