Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research (Rural Studies)

Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA’s Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing from 1919 to 1953, the Division was the first, and for a time the only, unit of the federal government devoted to sociological research. The authors explore how these early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses of farm living, rural community social organization, and the agricultural labor force.

History

Larson, Olaf F.

Zimmerman, Julie N.

Americas

Penn State University Press

Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA’s Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing from 1919 to 1953, the Division was the first, and for a time the only, unit of the federal government devoted to sociological research. The authors explore how these early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses of farm living, rural community social organization, and the agricultural labor force.

Sociology In Government: A Bibliography Of The Work Of The Division Of Farm Population And Rural Life, U.s. Department Of Agriculture, 19191953

"This bibliography is the first major output of the project ""Sociology in the U.S. Department of Agriculture: the Galpin-Taylor years, 1 9 1 9- 1 95 3."" This project is being conducted under a cooperative agreement between the Agriculture and Rural Economy Division, Economic ResearchService, U.S. Depa rtment of Agriculture and the Department of Rural Sociology, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. We are grateful to both organiza tions for providing funds. Financial support has also been provided by the Cornell University AgriculturalExperiment Station and by a grant from the budget for the Rural Sociological Society's 50th Anniversary Committee. The Farm Foundation awarded funds to support meetings of an Advisory Panel of former key members of the staff of the Division of Farm Popu lation and Rural Life. The American Sociological Association, the Rural Sociological Society, and the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station provided funds to assist in covering publication costs."

Oliver, Yvonne B.

Moe, Edward O.

Routledge

Between 1919 and 1953, the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life in the USDA's Bureau of Agricultural Economics promoted sociological research on rural society and its relationships with the larger US society. In retrospect, these studies offer a historical record of rural America in a period of great change. This volume includes more than 150

This volume includes more than 1500 citations to the research publications and related work of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Substantive areas are indicated by key words adapted from the subject index used in the Rural Sociology 50-Year Index for 1936-85.

Sociology In Government: A Bibliography Of The Work Of The Division Of Farm Population And Rural Life, U.s. Department Of Agriculture, 1919-1953

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Westview Press

From 1919 through 1953, the U.S. Department of Agriculture housed the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life - the first unit within the federal government established specifically for sociological research. It reached the height of its influence during the New Deal and World War II as it helped implement modern liberal policies in America's farming sector, attempting to counteract the harsh effects of modern industrialism on the rural economy. In addition, the Division devoted resources to studying both the history and the contemporary state of rural social life. Sociology in Government offers the first detailed historical account and systematic documentation of this remarkable federal office.

Sociology In Government: The Galpin-taylor Years In The U.s. Department Of Agriculture, 1919-1953 (RURAL STUDIES SERIES OF THE RURAL SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY)

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Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research (Rural Studies)

Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research (Rural Studies)

Sociology In Government: A Bibliography Of The Work Of The Division Of Farm Population And Rural Life, U.s. Department Of Agriculture, 19191953

Sociology In Government: A Bibliography Of The Work Of The Division Of Farm Population And Rural Life, U.s. Department Of Agriculture, 19191953

Sociology In Government: A Bibliography Of The Work Of The Division Of Farm Population And Rural Life, U.s. Department Of Agriculture, 1919-1953

Sociology In Government: The Galpin-taylor Years In The U.s. Department Of Agriculture, 1919-1953 (RURAL STUDIES SERIES OF THE RURAL SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY)