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Enacting Rural Sociology: Or what are the Creativity Claims of the Engaged Sciences?
Author(s) -
Lowe Philip
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
sociologia ruralis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.005
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-9523
pISSN - 0038-0199
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2010.00522.x
Subject(s) - creativity , sociology , rural sociology , social science , order (exchange) , political science , rural development , law , agriculture , economics , history , archaeology , finance
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 20 th 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.