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Cunningham, Sally, Ed. – 1978
In recent years many Canadian groups have recognized their communities' centennials by undertaking the task of compiling and recording local history. Responding to numerous questions on producing local history books, the Centre staged two workshops to provide amateur historians with the kinds of information they need for such projects. Sessions at…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Books, Financial Support, Historiography
Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists. Rural Sociology Section. – 1978
The 1978 annual meeting featured 60 papers in 15 subject matter sessions. Authors were primarily from the South, but senior authors from Kansas, New Mexico, and New York also presented papers. Session A, the plenary session, included three papers on contributions of multidisciplinary research to university research and public service programs.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Area Studies, Career Choice, Community Development
Castle, Emery, Ed.; Baldwin, Barbara, Ed. – 1988
The purposes of the National Rural Studies Committee (NRSC) are to develop a comprehensive and coherent framework for viewing rural area problems, and to provide legitimacy for rural studies as an academic field of specialization. This first NRSC meeting focused on the picture of rural America drawn in American literature, the nature of employment…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Conservation (Environment), Economic Development, Economic Factors
Boykin, William C., Comp.; And Others – 1979
Sessions during the four day meeting of the Rural Sociology Section explored 14 major areas of interest. Most of the papers presented are included in this document which serves as the proceedings of the 1979 annual meeting. The first session of the meeting was devoted to methodology; four papers were presented and three of them are included in the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Area Studies, Aspiration, Banking
Mookherjee, Harsha N., Ed. – 1977
"Rural Sociology: A Field of Basic and Applied Research" was the theme of the 1977 annual meeting. Participants at the convention heard 50 reports in 14 sessions, as well as five special panels and two special sessions. Most of the papers, research reports and essays presented in the sessions are included in this document and serve as…
Descriptors: American Indians, Area Studies, Career Planning, Citizen Participation
Frese, Wolfgang, Ed. – 1980
A total of 47 papers representing the broad research and extension interests related to rural areas are included in this volume. The 13 sessions are entitled Rural Structure and Process, Industrialization, Migration, Health and Alcohol, Quality of Life, Occupations and Work, Applied Sociology, Education, Network Analysis, Poverty, Status…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Area Studies, Comparative Analysis, Consumer Economics
Wimberly, Ronald C., Comp. – 1982
A total of 33 papers are collected for dissemination to other sociologists and graduate/undergraduate students, and represent the broad thrusts southern sociology brings to bear on rural and agricultural problems. The seven sessions are entitled: The Sociology of Agriculture (three papers); The Sociology of Communities (six papers); Social Change…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Area Studies, Change, Community Change
