Parents shape children's social choices through their social and economic actions. Parental social participation connects children to a civic culture and encourages involvement in civic groups. Parents' ties to farming in farm-dependent communities furuther enhance children's civic orientations by providing added opportunities and incentives for social participation. Data from Iowa Youth and Families Project confirm these hypotheses, showing that the children of farmers and of rural leaders are more likely to participate in civic groups. These results establish parental social involvement as a source of social capital and demonstrate the importance of farm incluences for understanding the social involvement of youth in rural society.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18293
Notes:
Pages 147-158 in Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz (eds.), Qualitative sociology as everyday life. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 280 pages., Example of a "dramaturgical or performative sociology" - human interactions in a small town in rural Montana.
Rogers, Everett M. (author), Beal, George M. (author), and Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Ohio State University.
Professor, Department of Economics and Sociology, Iowa State College.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1958-10
Published:
USA: American Marketing Association
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08230
Grace, Margaret (author / Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane, Australia)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1998-06-13
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23536
Notes:
In "Conference Proceedings of the International Symposium on Learning Communities, Regional Sustainability and the Learning Society (June 13-20, 1998)." Edited by Ian Falk., 7 p., In Australia, as in other parts of the world, there is considerable interest in many quarters in the potential of new communication and information technologies to contribute significantly to the revitalization of regional communities. However, much remains to be understood about the social factors, which affect the success of innovative technology applications. Research conducted by the Queensland University of Technology indicates that gender significantly affects not only access and use of communication and information technologies, but also rural community development. By focusing on rural women's perspectives on communication issues, this research has revealed a need for the development of "soft" technologies to ensure that both social and economic development occurs in an integrated way in regional, rural and remote communities.
