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2. Off-farm employment by women and marital instability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Acock, Alan C. (author), Deseran, Forrest A. (author), and Department of Sociology and Rural Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1986
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 85 Document Number: C05440
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 51 (3) : 314-327
3. The social bases of environmental concern : have they changed over time?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dunlap, Riley E. (author), Jones, Robert Emmet (author), and Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06476
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (1) : 28-47
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Using data obtained from National Opinion Research Center's General Social Surveys (1973-1990), this paper tests two hypotheses concerning possible changes in the sociopolitical correlates of environmental concern. The "broadening base" hypothesis predicts that environmental concern will diffuse throughout the populace, while the "economic contingency" hypothesis predicts that the economically deprived will disproportionally withdraw support for environmental protection during poor economic conditions. analysis of the data over the 18 years, however, failed to lend any clear support for either of the hypotheses. In marked contrast, results indicate that the social bases of environmental concern-at least as measured by the NORC environmental spending item-have remained remarkably stable over nearly two decades despite fluctuating economic, political, and environmental conditions. Younger adults, the well-educated, political liberals, Democrats, those raised and currently living in urban areas, and those employed outside of primary industries were found to be consistently more supportive of environmental protection than were their respective counterparts. (original)
4. Public perceptions about food safety in the United States and Japan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Judson, D.H. (author), Jussaume, Raymond A., Jr. (author), and Department of Rural Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06479
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (2) : 235-49
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Consumer concerns over pesticide residues and food additives have been growing in industrialized societies, including the United States and Japan. However, little comparative research has been carried out to determine which household characteristics may be significantly associated with these heightened concerns, and whether or not the same factors are useful for understanding variation in these worries in more than one society. This paper examines food safety attitudes in Seattle, Washington, and Kobe, Japan, and discovers that while the absolute level of expressed concern is higher in Kobe, the predictive power of household characteristics in explaining attitudinal differences within countries is similar. Implications for rural areas and future research on family structures in capitalists societies are discussed. (original)
5. Attitudes and bureaucrats : assessing the representatives of local officials in New Hampshire
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hodges, Donald G. (author), Luloff, A.E. (author), and Luloff: Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802; Hodges: Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi 39762
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06516
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (3) : 381-395
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Since the late 1950s and 1960s, New Hampshire has experienced unprecedented growth. During the past two decades, this growth has begun to be felt in the state's North Country, particularly among its many small communities. As a result of developmental pressures in this region, numerous local problems related to the environment and socio-economic conditions surfaced. The responsibility for meeting the challenges of such growth and development often fell on amateur bureaucrats. Relatively little is known about how representative such officials are of their local citizenry in terms of attitudes and opinions or socio-demographics. This paper presents the results of a study comparing demographic characteristics and assesses the congruence of attitudes of citizens and local government officials in the North Country of New Hampshire. (author)
6. The alternative-conventional agriculture debate: where do agricultural faculty stand?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Beus, Curtis E. (author), Dunlap, Riley E. (author), and Department of Rural Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06518
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (3) : 363-380
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
7. Political beliefs in an era of economic decline : farmers' attitudes toward state economic intervention, trade, and food security
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lobao, Linda M. (author), Thomas, Pamela (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- 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: C06662
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (4) : 453-475
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, The effects of the economy on political attitudes is a long-standing sociological issue that is receiving renewed attention in the face of recent U.S. economic downturns. While the impacts of the farm crisis on financial and household well-being of farm operators have been addressed by a number of studies, few have explored its political outcomes. Four perspectives that consider how economic forces translate into political beliefs are outlined, two reflecting objective economic position (class location and financial pressure) and two indicating subjective appraisals (feelings of economic uncertainty and subjective deprivation). Data from a sample of Ohio farm operators for 1987 are used to analyze how the perspectives are related to progressive beliefs about farming, the domestic nonfarm economy, and third-world food production. Indicators of objective economic position and subjective appraisals have relatively limited impact on farmers' political attitudes. Of these indicators, subjective appraisals were more closely related to attitudes. In addition, operators' stances on farm political issues also affect their views on domestic nonfarm and third-world policy agendas. Implications were found for studies of farmers' political attitudes as well as for broader sociological theory regarding the development of progressive attitudes during periods of economic decline. (original)
8. The adoption period
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rogers, Everett M. (author / Ohio State University)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Publication Date:
- 1961-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 4 Document Number: B00376
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 26(1) : 77-82
- Notes:
- Hal R. Taylor Collection
9. Status, knowledge, and innovation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gartrell, C. David (author), Gartrell, John W. (author), and Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 37 Document Number: B04061
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 44 (1) : 73-94
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Examines the conditions under which cultivators in 84 agrarian villages within the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh adopted green revolution technology. Social status or resources and awareness are viewed as necessary but not sufficient conditions for the trial of innovation. A multiplicative model was specified to examine their effects. At higher levels of education, awareness was translated into trial at a high rate. In villages where awareness and resources were relatively highly concentrated, the rate of translation of awareness into trial was higher.
10. Informal leaders and innovators in farm practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wilkening, Eugene A. (author / University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) and University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1952
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04926
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 (3) : 272-75
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
11. Cultural differences in the acceptance of recommended practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pedersen, Harald A. (author / Mississippi State College) and Mississippi State College
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1951
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04928
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 16 (1) : 37-49
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, This is a comparative analysis of the adjustment of a Danish and a Polish ethnic group to the American culture in a dairy farming area in central Wisconsin. The adjustment is evaluated in terms of recommended farm practices. These practices are grouped under three major categories: (1) livestock practices, (2) cropping practices, and (3) mechanization. For every trait measured the Danish farm group exceeds the Polish group in the proportion who have adopted the selected recommended practices. The performance suggests that the Danish and Polish ethnic groups are different universes from the standpoint of behavior and reaction to recommended dairy farming practices. The Danish and the Polish groups constitute distinct culture complexes, or subcultures, within the North central dairy region. the evidence of the study indicated that the cultural adjustments of the Danish group facilitate the introduction of new ides, whereas the adjustments of the Polish group tend to perpetuate status quo. (author)
12. Some characteristics of progressive farmers in the Netherlands
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- van den Ban, A.W. (author / Ministry of Agriculture, The Netherlands, and Department of Rural Sociology, Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands) and Ministry of Agriculture, The Netherlands, and Department of Rural Sociology, Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1951
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04929
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 16 (3) : 205-12
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
13. Selected cultural characteristics and the acceptance of educational programs and practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Duncan, James A. (author), Kreitlow, Burton W. (author), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1954-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05129
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 (3) : 349-357
- Notes:
- Evans, cited reference
14. An introductory note of the social aspects of practice adoption
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wilkening, Eugene A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1958-06
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05133
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 23 ( 2) : 97-102
- Notes:
- Evans, cited reference
15. Difference in prestige standards and orientation to change in a traditional agricultural setting
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fliegel, F.G. (author / Pennsylvania State University, University Park.) and Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1965
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05544
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(September) : 278-290
16. Technology and ecology : implications for innovation research in peasant agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ashby, Jacqueline A. (author / International Ferhliser Development Center) and International Ferhliser Development Center
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1982
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03386
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 47 (2) : 234-250
- Notes:
- Phase II, Raises several questions about prevailing conception of adopters and adoption behavior. Specifically, the author argues that research has failed to take into account variations in farming environments, natural physical parameters, and the social organization of resources as factors influencing peasant farmers' adoption behavior. More attention ought to be given to the location specific constraints, characteristics and requirements of specific technologies, and to the general issue of whether identical technologies are equivalent innovations in different agro-climatic environments. Drawing on data from several villages in Nepal, the author shows that rates of adoption are location specific, that is, influenced more by agro-climatic conditions and socioeconomic organization than by inter-village differences in propensity to innovate. Ecological suitably and varying levels of farm resources have a direct effect on technology utilization.