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2. The adoption of agricultural conservation technologies : economic and diffusion explanations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nowak, Peter J. (author) and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05128
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 52 (2) : 208-220.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 87060211
3. Kinship arrangements and innovativeness : a comparison of Palouse and prairie findings
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tsoukalas, Theodore (author), Van Es, J.C. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Urbana, IL
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05130
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 52 (3) : 389-397.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 87082290
4. Farmers displaced in economically depressed times
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Goreham, Gary A. (author), Leistritz, F. Larry (author), Rathge, Richard W. (author), and Departments of Sociology and Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; Departments of Sociology and Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; Departments of Sociology and Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05135
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 53 (3) : 346-356.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 89001627, We compared the socioeconomic characteristics of a generalizable sample of displaced farm households in North Dakota with a random sample of producers who were currently operating their farming enterprises. We hypothesized that the displaced farmers would differ significantly from their currently operating counterparts in (1) the structural conditions of their operations and (2) their personal characteristics. Our hypotheses were guided by the changing structure of the agriculture literature and the adoption-diffusion literature. We obtained our data from lists of farmers who were displaced between 1981 and 1985 for financial reasons (N = 169) and from a panel of active farmers (N = 759) initially surveyed in 1985. We found that farmers displaced between 1981 and 1985 did not operate enterprises significantly different from those currently in business. Our analysis of the personal characteristics of operators revealed statistically significant differences, but these differences had limited explanatory power. We concluded that researchers should shift their attention to macrolevel variables to characterize displaced farmers.
5. Importance of labor in adoption of a modern farm input
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ndiaye, Serigne (author), Sofranko, Andrew J. (author), and Departments of Sociology and Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05144
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 53 (4) : 421-432.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 89035615, We explore the relationship between adoption of farm technology and labor availability in Africa. We use a case study of the introduction of a high-yielding variety of maize in an area of Zambia to examine the different aspects of the relationship between adoption and labor availability/mobilization. The research is based on an intensive 15-month study of 23 maize farmers, survey data from 240 of their farm workers, and data collected from an ongoing integrated rural development project. The data illustrate that the shift to hybrid maize requires additional labor. farmers' inability to mobilize additional labor results in partial adoption and various compromises in the performance of recommended practices. The labor survey reveals that despite farmers' preferences for hiring older workers and female labor, children are extensively employed because of their availability. We conclude by illustrating the need for adoption research that takes the broader farming environment into account.
6. Social risk and rural sociology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Christenson, James A. (author) and Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05146
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 53 (1) : 1-24.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 88006985
7. 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:
8. The use of open and closed questions to identify holders of crystallized attitudes: the case of adoption of erosion-control practices among farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Boersma, Larry (author), Faulkenberry, G. David (author), Mason, Robert (author), and Mason: Survey Research Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Boersma: Department of Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Faulkenberry: Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05169
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 53 (1) : 96-109.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 88006991
9. Social theory and the de/reconstruction of agricultural science : local knowledge for an alternative agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kloppenburg, Jack, Jr. (author / Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06474
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 (4) : 519-548
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, As a result of environmental and agrarian activism and of academic critique, a substantial amount of space is available now for moving agricultural technoscience onto new trajectories. A critical rural sociology has played a key role in pushing forward the deconstructive project that has been instrumental in creating this space. And rural sociologists can be active agents in the reconstruction of the alternative science that must emerge from "actually existing" science and that must be developed if there is to be a truly alternative agriculture. But to be effective in this effort we need to enlarge not only the canon of our colleagues in the natural sciences, but our own canon as well. This article suggests that the theoretical resources for such reconstruction are available in contemporary sociological and feminist interpretations of science. Material resources for the reconstruction of a "successor science" are to be found in the "local knowledge" that is continually produced and reproduced by farmers and agricultural workers. Articulations and complementarities between theoretical resources are suggested and potentially productive research areas are outlined. (original)
10. Adoption behavior in family farm systems: an Iowa study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abdella, M. (author / University of Georgia) and University of Georgia
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1981
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 105 Document Number: C09225
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 46 : 42-61
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