1st Edition

The Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies Critical Perspectives

Edited By Frederick H. Buttel, Howard Newby Copyright 1980
544 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1980, The Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies presents, on an international scale, diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, and includes the work of scholars who have played major roles in the development of rural sociology. The contributors, from many Western nations, focus on all aspects of rural sociology, including the processes of cultural... Read more

Towards a critical rural sociology
Howard Newby and Frederick H. Buttel

Theoretical Perspectives

Summary of selected parts of Kautsky’s The Agrarian Question
Jarius Banaji

The political economy of class structures in U.S. Agriculture: A theoretical outline
Kevin F. Goss, Richard D. Rodefeld, and Frederick H. Buttel

Capitalist agricultural development and the exploitation of the propertied laborer
John Emmeus Davis

Social differentiation in agriculture and the ideology of neopopulism
Alain de Janvry

Agricultural Transformation in Advanced Societies

Capitalism in agriculture and capitalistic agriculture: The Italian case
Giovanni Mottura and Enrico Pugliese

Technology in agriculture: labor and the rate of accumulation
William H. Friedland

Betwixt and Between: Farmers and the marketing of agricultural inputs and outputs
Oscar B. Martinson and Gerald R. Campbell

Urbanization and the rural class structure: Reflections on a case study
Howard Newby

The State and Agriculture in the Advanced Societies

State and Agriculture in two eras of American capitalism
Susan A. Mann and James A. Dickinson

Agricultural policy and the decline of commercial family farming: A comparative analysis of the U.S., Sweden, and the Netherlands
Peter R. Sinclair

Rural Underdevelopment and Rural Poverty

The highlands of Scotland as an underdeveloped region
Ian Carter

Industrial growth and development policies in the British periphery
Robert Moore

The political economy of rural development: The case of western U.S. boomtowns
Ann R. Markusen

Rural Ecology

Ecology and Ideology
Philip D. Lowe and Michael W. Worboys

Agriculture, environment, and social change: Some emergent issues
Frederick H. Buttel

The quiet revolution in land use control revisited
Charles C. Geisler

Biography

Frederick H. Buttel and Howard Newby