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SummaryTowards the Inter‐Disciplinary Integration of Economic Theory and Rural SociologyIntroduction: Rural sociology is, to a large extent, economic sociology. Need for integration of economic theory and rural sociology.Section 1: The nature of economics, the assumptions underlying economic generalizations. ‘Economic man’ an ideal type.Section 2: Rural sociology, for as far as it is economic sociology, also accepts ‘economic man’ as an ideal type and studies the institutionalization of economic man, while economics starts from his being there.Section 3 gives a conceptual scheme of the institutionalization of ‘economic man’ and thus provides a link between economic theory and rural sociology.Conclusion: Economics is concerned with the order of civilization (in the sense of McIver and Page, 1950), rural sociology with cultural conditions necessary for development and spread of civilization. Some of these conditions. Rural sociological research has neglected several of them, which have special relevance for the economic development of peas

ISSN:0038-0199    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9523.1966.tb00528.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1966

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryAgriculture on the March in an Industrial SocietyThe right way to integrate agriculture in the European industrial system is a problem. Modern techniques enable the farmers in industrial countries to provide more nutrition for the industrial population than is needed. The process of rationalisation is accompanied by strong concentration, both regional and structural. Agricultural productivity is increasing much faster near the big cities and the industrial centres than in the remote marginal zones. Already in the zones of industrial concentration in Western Europe, farms with an industrial character predominate. On the other hand the family farm is still typical of the underdeveloped marginal zones with a weaker economy.As a societas naturalis' the family is beyond human discussion. Man, however, is responsible for the concrete historical realisation of its existence. The smallholding is the form of family existence that is adjusted to the bourgeois‐artisan world of early modern times, prior to the enormous development of industry. In a fully industrialised society, however, it has no chance of surviving.The high financial needs of the industrially organised enterprise with more than one worker requires, also in agriculture, financial structures and entrepreneurial forms corresponding to those of modern industrial society. The number of capital‐owners among agriculturists is increasing. Private ownership of a traditional farm by one family will disappear.An agricultural policy that fixes the inherited structures and privileges of the past does not recognize the dynamic character of the ‘justitia soci

ISSN:0038-0199    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9523.1966.tb00529.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1966

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe Significance of the ‘Good Farmer’As a part of a research project on the communication of new farm practices, carried out in 79 rural communities in east and central Poland, 8543 farmers were asked to select those farmers that were in their opinion ‘good farmers’ in their own communities. In 45 communities one or more farmers collected 20 per cent or more of the votes. In the other communities no ‘good farmers’ were mentioned or the votes were too dispersed. The results of this enquiry were compared with findings concerning progressive farmers in the same communities, measured according to objective economic criteria. In the more developed communities, nearer to towns and industries, the subjective evaluation of the ‘good farmer’ correspond more closely than in the more traditionalistic communities with the judgment based on economic criteria. Most usually, no ‘good farmer’ was chosen in the traditionalistic communities, and where one was chosen he was generally not the most progressive farmer. The conclusion is that in the less advanced regions of Poland non‐economic and nonprofessional criteria play a greater part in evaluating leaders. Although innovators rank high in all regions, the innovators chosen in the less‐developed regions are usu

ISSN:0038-0199    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9523.1966.tb00530.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1966

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe Contribution of Sociology to Agricultural EconomicsContrary to the views of a number of economists, who look at agricultural economics as the application of economic theory to agriculture, the authors of the present article consider agricultural economics as a biological science applied to social phenomena, of which the purely economic approach explores only some aspects, often over‐simplified. This view is of importance, not only for the establishment of the problems to be studied by rural sociology, but also for ascertaining the right application of research findings for practical purposes. Several examples, chosen from the studies carried out by the authors, illustrate that the position taken is more realistic than it seem

ISSN:0038-0199    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9523.1966.tb00531.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1966

数据来源: WILEY