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Scale of Agricultural Production, Civic Engagement, and Community Welfare
Social Forces, 2001Using data from the Census of Agriculture and other secondary sources, we examine the relationship between scale offarm operations in a county and the well-being of local residents. Following earlier work by C. Wright Mills and Walter Goldschmidt, we hypothesize that in agriculture dependent counties that are dominated by a small handful of very ...
T. A. Lyson, R. J. Torres, R. Welsh
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Civic Engagement Through Civic Agriculture: Using Food to Link Classroom and Community
Teaching Sociology, 2006The maximization of productivity and labor efficiency has been a hallmark of the American agriculture and food system. The result of these twin processes is an industrial, concentrated, and consolidated provisioning system that produces cheap and plentiful food. Many view this model as a panacea for providing food to a modern industrial workforce, yet,
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Place, work, and civic agriculture: Common fields for cultivation
Agriculture and Human Values, 2002``Civic agriculture'' identifies adiverse and growing body of food and farmingenterprises fitted to the needs of localgrowers, consumers, rural economies, andcommunities. The term lends shape andlegitimacy to development paradigms that existin opposition to the global,corporately-dominated food system.
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Civic Learning Through Agricultural Improvement
2010How do people use education to respond to change? How do people learn what is expected of 'good citizens' in their communities? These questions have long concerned educational historians, civic educators, and social scientists. In recent years, they have captured national attention through high-profile education reform proposals and civic initiatives ...
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Green Horizon: The Theory and Prospects of Thomas Lyson’s “Civic Agriculture”
Sociological Forum, 2011parents cannot exit parenthood (p. 143). Similarly, Americans have increas ingly thought that all religions are acceptable, yet when you pick one, you are supposed to be fully committed to it (until you leave it for another). I, for one, have never thought of the literature on religious pluralism and religious switching in this insightful way.
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