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.
    Subject Term:
    Africa, Asia, Central America, innovations, North America, politics, predictions, rural communities, rural development, and South America
    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:

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