Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace Environmental Quality in the United States

Reference

Buttel, Frederick H.

Geisler, Charles C.

Wiswall, Irving W.

Catalogs & Directories

Greenwood Pub Group

Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rural Sociological Society, this monograph analyzes the nearly 90 years of rural sociological research on agriculture and provides a comprehensive overview of changing research focuses and theoretical approaches. As the authors note at the outset, there are a good number of continuities between early-20th-century rural sociology and what is now called the sociology of agriculture. There are also, they note, very substantial differences between contemporary sociology of agriculture scholarship and that which preceded it. Their aim throughout is to convey both continuities and discontinuities in theory, method, and approach. Intended primarily as a straightforward exposition of major scholarly themes, the volume is designed to be useful to readers from a variety of theoretical persuasions. The authors do, however, point to areas of weakness in theoretical or methodological approach that should be addressed in future research.The volume is organized around the three major eras of rural sociological conceptualizations of agriculture. The authors begin by examining the founding of U.S. rural sociology shortly after the turn of the century until the early 1950s, demonstrating that during this initial era the study of agriculture was largely construed as one of the many elements necessary for understanding the social fabric of rural community life. In the next section, they explore the social psychological/behaviorist tradition, which held sway from the early 1950s through the early 1970s and which conceptualized farmers as actors responding to stimuli such as new technologies and educational opportunities. The three chapters devoted to recent research in the emerging tradition of the new rural sociology address such topics as the political economy of agriculture, the environment of agriculture, and major theoretical trends in the sociology of agriculture. In their concluding chapter, the authors look toward the future of the sociology of agriculture and identify some potential problems as we move into the 1990s.

The Sociology of Agriculture: (Contributions in Sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Larson, Olaf F.

Gillespie Jr., Gilbert W.

Social Sciences

Praeger

This is a comprehensive yet accessible text that exposes students to the interaction between society and the environment. Each chapter opens with a stimulating case example or scenario that helps students grasp this interaction, while a "Focus on the U.S." feature helps students relate global environmental issues to everyday life in the United States. Students learn how to use social theories to better understand environmental issues, both at home and internationally.

Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis

Lewis, Tammy L.

Humphrey, Craig R.

Science & Math

Cengage Learning'

This text was designed as a reader to accompany Humphrey, Lewis, and Buttel, Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (2002). The reader is divided into eight parts exploring issues and topics central to the study of the environment, rural and urban problems.

Environment, Energy and Society: Exemplary Works (The Wadsworth Sociology Reader Series)

Wadsworth Publishing

The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture. The book offers the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture. Drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender, the contributors put forward a basis for reassessing and restating the intellectual framework of agriculture.

Towards A New Political Economy Of Agriculture (Westview Special Studies in Agriculture Science and Policy)

Business & Money

Busch, Lawrence M

Rudy, Alan P

Friedland, William H.

Economics

Westview Press

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Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies

Newbry, Howard

Sociology

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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