Rural Sociology back issues from June 2008:
Political Socialization and Reactions to Immigration-Related Diversity in Rural America*
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT We explore the roots of tolerance for immigration-related diversity from a political socialization perspective. Among rural adolescent respondents, we find that attitudes toward immigrants are surprisingly variable along a number of important dimensions: anticipated socioeconomic ...
Against Free Markets, Against Science? Regulating the Socio-Economic Effects of Biotechnology*
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This study challenges the assumption that abstract "globalization" forces are driving transformations in the relationships between states and markets. Employing three cases of policy debate regarding the regulation of agricultural biotechnology (ag-biotech), we examine the role of ...
Understanding the Nature and Extent of Farm and Ranch Diversification in North America*
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Pressure to adopt enhanced production technologies, changing government support policies, increasing and more diverse competition, and changing markets have posed economic challenges to North American farmers over the past two decades. As a response, farmers are adjusting their ...
Ideologically Structured Information Exchange among Environmental Groups*
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT We use social network analysis to test the hypothesis that group ideology affects information exchange among environmental groups. The analysis is based on interviews with leaders of 136 environmental groups in Alabama. This paper adds to the literature on resource mobilization among ...
Trust, the Democratic Process, and Involvement in a Rural Community*
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT A number of dimensions of the democratic political process are important for understanding civic communities and civic engagement. While many of these aspects have been examined at the federal level, less is known about how these dynamics operate at the local level, especially in rural ...
Learning to Leave: The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community
Jun 01, 2008; ... Learning to Leave: The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community, by Michael Corbett, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2007. 297 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 978-1-55266-229-8. "Schooling is a quintessential institution of disembedding," Michael Corbett writes in this remarkable ...
Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan
Jun 01, 2008; ... Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan, by Robert C. Feenstra and Gary G. Hamilton, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 462 pp. $91.00 (cloth). ISBN: 0-521-62209-3. Economic sociology has become a cottage ...
Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy
Jun 01, 2008; ... Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy, by Alan P. Rudy, Dawn Coppin, Jason Konefal, Bradley T. Shaw, Toby Ten Eyck, Craig Harris and Lawrence Busch, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007. 236 pp. $54.50 (cloth). ISBN: ...
Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape
Jun 01, 2008; ... Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape, by Katrina Z.S. Schwartz, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 288 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 0-8229-5942-9. Nature and National Identity after Communism chronicles the historical formation of ...
Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy
Jun 01, 2008; ... Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy , edited by Peter Gibbon and Stefano Ponte, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $22.95 (hard cover). ISBN: 1-5921-3368-1. Trading Down should be required reading for all social scientists interested in global ...