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Colman, Gould P. – Rural Sociologist, 1981
Supports several of Frances Hill's positions on research about farm women (RC 504 387). States that regarding farm and family as separate dynamic systems whose integration varies in differing situations provides a context for evaluating impacts on farm and family. Available from: Rural Sociological Society, 325 Morgan Hall, University of…
Descriptors: Females, Research Methodology, Rural Family, Rural Farm Residents
Murray, M. Eloise – Rural Sociologist, 1981
Suggests additions to a conceptual framework for researching farm women combining family, labor/work, economics, politics, education, and technology cited in Frances Hill's "Farm Women: Challenge to Scholarship" (RC 504 387). Available from: Rural Sociological Society, 325 Morgan Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916. (NEC)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Farm Management, Farm Occupations, Females
Elbert, Sarah – Rural Sociologist, 1981
Researchers studying farm women must ask if successful integration of family and farm systems in the late 20th century involves feminism and, if so, what form of feminism. Available from: Rural Sociological Society, 325 Morgan Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916. (NEC)
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Farm Management, Females, Feminism
Flora, Cornelia Butler – Rural Sociologist, 1981
Suggests research agenda to analyze the class struggle occurring with farm women. Views the household as the unit of analysis, both internally from a farming-systems perspective and externally as responding to shifts in policy and technology. Available from: Rural Sociological Society, 325 Morgan Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Family (Sociological Unit), Farmers, Females
Hill, Frances – Rural Sociologist, 1981
Assesses current state of knowledge of the multiple roles of farm women as farmers, women, family members, individuals, and members of agricultural organizations; suggests directions for future research; discusses issues in research design. Available from: Rural Sociological Society, 325 Morgan Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Employed Women, Family Life, Farm Management
Filson, Glen; McCoy, Melinda – Rural Sociologist, 1993
A survey of 1,105 Ontario farmers examined perceived quality of life as a function of social class, sex, age, education, income, and off-farm employment. Most farmers, especially highly educated and wealthy ones, felt their quality of life was high, but also believed they had been adversely affected by recent rural social change. (LP)
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Farmers, Foreign Countries
Rohwer, Robert A. – Rural Sociologist, 1996
The constant flow of wealth from the countryside to the city arises from farms being bought out by co-heirs, educating children to move away, rents paid to absentee landlords, profits generated locally but landing elsewhere, and overreliance on property taxes. Overviews problems specific to northwestern Iowa and how they will affect the future of…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
