"This paper indicates that persons in neither the farm nor non-farm work setting may be any more dissatisfied than the other. Rather, a more fruitful explanation appears to rest in the degree of integration of the worker into either setting."
Reed Business Information, US, via LexisNexis Academic. 3 pages., Feature on Klinkenborg's career and orientation, including op-ed pieces in the New York Times on nature and rural living.
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
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)
USA: American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14460
Notes:
One of a series of books on "Reading with a purpose." Includes (p. 7) a brief biographical sketch of the author, a rural journalist. Author discusses various aspects of farm life and recommends eight books for further reading.
Oskam, Judy Barnes (author / Extension specialist and video coordinator, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07334
