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Enacting Rural Sociology: Or what are the Creativity Claims of the Engaged Sciences?

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Philip Lowe

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Abstract

The article seeks to initiate a debate on what part rural research plays in making real rural worlds. It does so through a review of the development of rural sociology. What started as a formal discipline in the United States in the early 20th century spread from there as part of the establishment of the post-war transatlantic liberal order. In the specific conditions of post-war Europe, that stimulated an organised response - a European rural sociology - to emulate and challenge the American approach to the study and regulation of rural problems. This selective review of the history of rural sociology poses the question: what are its creativity claims; and ponders more generally the basis of the creativity claims of the engaged sciences. © 2010 The Author. Sociologia Ruralis © 2010 European Society for Rural Sociology.

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Author(s): Lowe P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Sociologia Ruralis

Year: 2010

Volume: 50

Issue: 4

Pages: 311-330

Print publication date: 20/09/2010

Date deposited: 18/04/2012

ISSN (print): 0038-0199

ISSN (electronic): 1467-9523

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2010.00522.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2010.00522.x

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