Title: TOWARDS THE INTER‐DISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION OF ECONOMIC THEORY AND RURAL SOCIOLOGY<sup>1</sup>
Abstract: Summary Towards the Inter‐Disciplinary Integration of Economic Theory and Rural Sociology Introduction: Rural sociology is, to a large extent, economic sociology. Need for integration of economic theory and rural sociology. Section 1: The nature of economics, the assumptions underlying economic generalizations. ‘Economic man’ an ideal type. Section 2: Rural sociology, for as far as it is economic sociology, also accepts ‘economic man’ as an ideal type and studies the institutionalization of economic man, while economics starts from his being there. Section 3 gives a conceptual scheme of the institutionalization of ‘economic man’ and thus provides a link between economic theory and rural sociology. Conclusion: Economics is concerned with the order of civilization (in the sense of McIver and Page, 1950), rural sociology with cultural conditions necessary for development and spread of civilization. Some of these conditions. Rural sociological research has neglected several of them, which have special relevance for the economic development of peasant economics.
Publication Year: 1966
Publication Date: 1966-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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