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2. Endorsement of agrarian ideology and adherence to agricultural paradigms
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Beus, Curtis E. (author), Dunlap, Riley E. (author), and Department of Rural Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA: Rural Sociological Society, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08402
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 59 (3) : 462-484
- Notes:
- search through journal, Despite the fact that groups of alternative and conventional agriculturalist do not differ in their overall scores on an agrarianism scale, their response do differ significantly on several of the agrarianism items and on the items related to agrarianism from a scale designed to assess competing agricultural paradigms. This suggests that there are differences in these groups' agrarian ideologies even though their overall scores on the agrarianism scale are nearly identical. Although divergent agricultural groups support agrarian ideals such as family farms and the farm way of life, the way in which these groups conceptualize and would achieve these ideals appear to be different... (original)
3. Making sense of sustainability : nine answers to "What should be sustained?"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cordray, Sheila M. (author), Gale, Richard (author), and Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; Department of Sociology, Oregon State University, Corvallis. OR
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08415
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 59 (2) : 311-332
- Notes:
- searched through journal, The concept of sustainability is central to many current natural resource debates. While the concept has substantial appeal, consensus on its meaning is lacking, especially concerning what combinations of resources or practices should be sustained. The many meanings of sustainability are addressed by first presenting four defining questions: what is sustained, why sustain it, how is sustainability measured, and what are the politics? These questions are used to identify what we see as nine distinct types of sustinability, each reflecting a different vision of which resources should be sustained. Illustrations are drawn from three major renewable natural resource areas -agriculture, forestry, and marine fisheries. (original)