ISBN:
9781000242232
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.483091734
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Technology-Social aspects..
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Sociology, Rural
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Wilkening, Eugene A..
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Eugene A. Wilkening: A Biographical Note -- Record of Achievements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Adoption and Diffusion -- 1 The Diffusion-Adoption Process in Agriculture: Changes in Technology and Changing Paradigms -- 2 Public Protests Against Technological Innovations -- 3 Biotechnology and Unnatural Selection: The Social Control of Genes -- Part 2 Technology and the Structure of Agriculture -- 4 Technology and U.S. Agriculture -- 5 Beyond the Family Farm -- 6 European Social Theory and the Agrarian Question: Towards a Sociology of Agriculture -- 7 Policy Evolution and Current Crisis in Polish Agriculture -- Part 3 Technology and Rural Life -- 8 Agricultural Technology and Agrarian Community Organization -- 9 Changes in the Social and Spatial Structure of the Rural Community -- 10 Farm Family and the Role of Women -- Part 4 The Appropriate Technology Movement -- 11 Soft Tech/Hard Tech, Hi Tech/Lo Tech: A Social Movement Analysis of Appropriate Technology -- 12 Soft Energy and Hard Labor? Structural Restraints on the Transition to Appropriate Technology -- 13 Economic Effects of Technology in Agriculture in Less Developed Countries -- Index -- Contributors.
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