Books - Rural Sociology, Sociology of Agriculture And Sociology of Food

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Sociology Books 2008

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A Sociology of Food & Nutrition: The Social Appetite
by John Germov (Editor), Lauren Williams (Editor)
"Why do we eat the way we do?..."

Changing Rural Social Systems: Adaptation and Survival by Nan E. Johnson, Ching-li Wang. 
Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in... 

The Community in Rural America by Kenneth P. Wilkinson. 
This study examines the critical state of rural life in America, its causes and possible cure. 

The Sociology of Agriculture (Includes discussion of rural sociology in multiple chapters) by Frederick H. Buttel, Olaf F. Larson, Gilbert W. Gillespie Jr. 
Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rural Sociological Society, this monograph analyzes the nearly 90 years of rural sociological research on agriculture.

Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 by Katherine Jellison. 

A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society (Chap. Eight "Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy") by Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, Henry A. Walker. 
Leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity & inequality in our society. 

Gender and the Family Labor System: Defining Work in the Rural Midwest by Mary Neth. 
Farm Family Land Transfers;" Rural Sociology 45 #2 (1980): 290-308; and Sonya...Ownership Patterns," in Research in Rural Sociology and Development, ed. Harry K

Rural Sociology: The Strategy of Change (1957) by Charles P. Loomis, J. Allan Beegle.

Rural Social Systems: A Textbook in Rural Sociology and Anthropology (1950) by Charles P. Loomis, J. Beegle Allan. 

SOCIAL SYSTEMS A TEXTBOOK IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY by CHARLES...of research findings than in rural sociology. 

Reflexivity, Sociology and the Rural-Urban Distinction in Marx, Tonnies and Weber, in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology by Kieran Bonner.