The study of the people the rest of this atlas's disciplines grow food around: farm families, rural communities, land tenure, and the migration and poverty patterns that follow a countryside's fortunes. It took shape as a named field in the United States in the 1910s, its institutional roots running through the land-grant universities and the USDA, and its conventional starting point is President Theodore Roosevelt's 1908 Commission on Country Life, chaired by the horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey. It runs broader than the sociology of agriculture, its own major subfield, which narrows to how agricultural change itself reshapes rural life. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionRural sociology is a field of sociology traditionally associated with the study of social structure in rural areas. 1 Connections
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Land Reform, Concepts Land tenure and its reform are core rural sociology subjects
Source Rural Sociology (Wikipedia)
Land Reform, Concepts Land tenure and its reform are core rural sociology subjects
Source Land Reform (Wikipedia)
Farm-household production for use rather than market is a standing rural sociology subject
Source Rural Sociology (Wikipedia)
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Source Rural poverty (Wikipedia)
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1. Rural Sociology (Wikipedia)
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Rural sociology is a field of sociology traditionally associated with the study of social structure in rural areas.
Rural poverty (Wikipedia)
Includes: Rural Poverty, LeadQuote, Includes: Rural Poverty, Lead
It takes account of factors of rural society, rural economy, and political systems that give rise to the marginalization and economic disadvantage found there.
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