Abstract: Rural sociology is a field of applied sociological research and training that has historically focused on rural people and places. It has its intellectual origins and administrative home in the US Land-Grant System of colleges. Theoretical concerns historically centered on the implications of urbanization, modernization, and capitalist economic development. While the sociology of agriculture and environmental society represent major foci of investigation, rural sociology is much less parochial today than in the past, embracing substantive research themes, alternative methodologies, and policy issues that blur the boundaries with sociology. A new rural sociology emphasizes an emerging synthesis of research at the rural–urban interface.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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