An important aspect of this assignment is learning to find and integrate relevant social science data and literature with your descriiption and analysis. Use and cite at least two (2) pertinent assigned course readings, and find, use, and reference a minimum of four (4) additional relevant scholarly sources articles or books/book chapters that are sociological in terms of focus and approach. Search with key words using Google Scholar and databases such as Sociological Abstracts. Look at the list of journals in the syllabus for additional ideas about where to find articles. Draw on these sources to relate the sociologically relevant themes from the class with the issues you are researching in the paper. In some cases, you will need to use statistical databases to help you in your work. No abstract is required.
these are some suggested course readings for the paper:
Shucksmith, Mark. 2018. “Reimagining the Rural: From Rural Idyll to Good Countryside.” Journal of Rural Studies 59:163–172.
Ploeg, Jan Douwe van der. 2018. “From de-to repeasantization: The modernization of agriculture revisited.” Journal of Rural Studies 61:236-243.
Baylina, Mireia and Maria Rodó-Zárate. 2020. “Youth, Activism and New Rurality: A Feminist Approach.” Journal of Rural Studies 79:189–196.
Driscoll, Adam and Nicholas Theis. 2020. “’Not in Our water!’: Environmental Resistance in Rural Wisconsin.” Journal of Rural Studies
Gertler, Michael, JoAnn Jaffe, and Mary A. Beckie. 2018. “Dueling Discourses of Sustainability: Neo-Conventional and Organic Farming on the Canadian Prairies.” Pp. 162-186 in Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System, edited by D. Constance, J. Konefal, and M. Hatanaka. New York and London: Routledge/Earthscan.
Jaffe, JoAnn and Michael Gertler. 2017. “Rural Sociology.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, edited by K. Korgen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
