Agricultural sociology

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The Agrarsoziologie (in an extended meaning agriculture and Agrarsoziologie ) is part of discipline of sociology and agricultural science . It was originally concerned with the investigation of the special importance of agricultural production, the peasant family and the village way of life in industrial society, whereby it was implicitly assumed that a rural society would continue to exist in the industrial age. Current scientific interest is directed, on the one hand, to prosperous areas in the vicinity of agglomerations and, on the other hand, to remote regions that are in danger of being decoupled from social development.

History of Agricultural and Land Sociology

The Russian-American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin is considered to be the founder of the academic discipline. In 1929, he and Carle Clark Zimmerman (1897–1983) presented the fundamental text Principles of rural-urban sociology . In the United States, departments of rural sociology have been set up at colleges and universities . Although there had been individual studies on the subject in Germany, such as a pioneering work by Max Weber from 1892, there was no separately institutionalized agricultural sociology until the end of the Second World War . Approaches to an ecology of the social like back then in the USA did not get beyond the initial principles in the Weimar Republic.

During the time of National Socialism , many scientists concerned with agricultural sociology “willingly put themselves at the service of blood and soil ideology”. It was only after the war that individual chairs for agricultural sociology were established in Germany, exclusively in agricultural science faculties. The discipline of being far removed from theory and close to politics was always accused, on the other hand, contract research and practical issues such as land consolidation and the problem of commuters were accused . or village settlement development with operated. The agricultural historian Wilhelm Abel included agricultural sociological topics intensively in his historical work and teaching. The connection with everyday history as well as a sociology of nutrition was particularly useful due to the refugee problems and changing economic conditions in the 1950s and 1960s.

Internal conflicts increased in the 1970s. A few agricultural sociologists took up more general and at that time alternative topics such as sustainability , ecology or the relationship between humans and animals. The main research area remained the technical and social modernization of agriculture and the description of a special way of life in rural areas. While environmental and agricultural history have been among the most productive disciplines in historical studies in recent decades, agricultural sociology has played a minor role in the subject itself and was at the same time an important part of the curriculum at agricultural universities. At times it was seen as separate from other sociology. With the increasing convergence of living conditions between town and country, rural sociology threatened to lose its research topic. New topics - beyond the classic urban-rural and progress-backwardness dichotomies can be found on the basis of the regional disparities , which are also increasing internationally , and which affect rural regions very differently.

literature

Books

Magazines

  • Rural sociology. 1936–1989 full text
  • The journal of peasant studies. since 1973.
  • Sociologia ruralis. Journal of the European Society for Rural Sociology. since 1960.
  • Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name of the corresponding section of the German Society for Sociology reads Land, Agricultural and Nutrition Sociology .
  2. ^ A b Claudia Neu : Land and Agricultural Sociology. In: Georg Kneer , Markus Schroer (eds.): Handbook of special sociologies. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 243 ff.
  3. ^ Pitirim Sorokin, Carle C. Zimmerman: Principles of rural-urban sociology. Holt, New York 1929.
  4. ↑ Max Weber: The conditions of the farm workers in East Elbe Germany (= writings of the Association for Socialpolitik. Volume 55). Leipzig 1892.
  5. ↑ Egon Becker, Thomas Jahn: Social ecology: Fundamentals of a science of the social relationships to nature. Campus Verlag, 2006, pp. 45 and 374.
  6. ^ A b Claudia Neu: Land and Agricultural Sociology. In: Georg Kneer, Markus Schroer (eds.): Handbook of special sociologies. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-15313-1 , pp. 243-261., Here p. 256.
  7. ↑ Peter von Blanckenburg: Introduction to Agricultural Sociology. E. Ulmer, 1962, p. 150.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Abel: Agricultural Policy. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967, p. 35 ff.
  9. ↑ a b Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning: Agrarian history as an important part of economic and social history with special consideration of Wilhelm Abel's research approaches. In: Wilhelm Abel, Markus A. Denzel (Hrsg.): Economy - Politics - History: Contributions to the commemorative colloquium on the occasion of Wilhelm Abel's 100th birthday on October 16, 2004 in Leipzig. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004 p. 28 ff.
  10. ↑ Michael W. Grüner: On the criticism of traditional agricultural sociology in the Federal Republic of Germany. Publishing house of SSIP-Schriften, 1977.
  11. ↑ Bernhard Glaeser: Human Ecology: Basics of preventive environmental policy. Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 184 ff.
  12. ^ Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology: ZAA | H-Soz cult. In: www.hsozkult.de. Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
  13. ^ Werner Troßbach: Communication and interdisciplinarity. Challenges in Agricultural Science. Festschrift for Dr. Siawuch Amini. kassel university press GmbH, 2006.
  14. ^ A b Claudia Neu: Land and Agricultural Sociology. In: Georg Kneer, Markus Schroer (eds.): Handbook of special sociologies. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 243.