1. 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)