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2. Rural life in a mass-industrial society
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nelson, Lowry (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1957-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09541
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(1) : 20-30
- Notes:
- Hal R. Taylor Collection (abstract)
3. Upper-middle-class conservatism in agricultural communities : a meta-analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gartrell, C. David (author), Gartrell, J.W. (author), Lewis, Scott C. (author), and Lewis: Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Gartrell, C.: Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Gartrell, J.: Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05148
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 54 (3) : 409-419.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 89062953, We test two hypotheses based on Cancian's theory of the status-innovation relationship which predicts upper-middle-class conservatism in agricultural communities (1967, 1972, 1979, 1981). Quantitative meta-analysis of 34 rural development surveys yields a cumulated difference-of-proportions that (1) actually runs counter to the direction predicted by Cancian's "upper-middle- class conservatism" hypothesis, and (2) supports Morrison et al.'s (1976) conjecture that upper-middle-class conservatism effects should be weaker in pyramidal representations of rural stratification systems. Future research should focus on community-level contextual factors that may influence the nature of the status-innovation relationship: