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2. Predicting intent to consumer beef : normative versus attitudinal beliefs
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McIntosh, William Alex (author), Zey, Marcia (author), and Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06480
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (2) : 250-65
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, The Ajzen-Fishbein (1980) model to predict intent to perform behavior was used to assess the intent to consume beef among a stratified random sample of 400 Texas women. It was found that attitudes toward consuming beef do not predict directly intent to consume beef, but the subjective norm does. Specifically, the respondent's husband and friends strongly affect her intention to consume less beef. Thus, knowing the subjective norm permits prediction of her intentions because such intentions are not under attitudinal control. These findings call for an intensification of research efforts on food consumption on social influences such as referent others. (original)
3. Public opposition to genetic engineering
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Czaja, Ronald (author), Hoban, Thomas (author), Woodrum, Eric (author), and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA: Rural Sociological Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06663
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (4) : 476-495
- Notes:
- biotechnology, James F. Evans Collection, The extent and sources of public opposition to the use of genetic engineering in agricultural production are examined through data from telephone interviews with 220 farmers and 332 nonfarmers living in eight North Carolina counties. A model suggesting that public opposition to genetic engineering is influenced by demographic characteristics mediated by three intervening variables (awareness of genetic engineering, faith in government and industry, and moral objection to genetic engineering) is analyzed. Moral objection is the strongest predictor of opposition. Opposition is also related to lower awareness and less faith in institutions. Women are more likely to oppose genetic engineering than men. Implications of findings are noted. (original)
4. Attitudes towards food safety and the environment: A comparison of consumers in Japan and the U.S
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jussaume, Jr. R.A. (author) and Higgins, L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1998-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: C10146
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 63(3) : 394-411