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Empowering Rural Sociology: Exploring and Linking Alternative Paradigms in Theory and Methodology 1
Author(s) -
Harris Rosalind P.,
Bridger Jeffrey C.,
Sachs Carolyn E.,
Tallichet Suzanne E.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1995.tb00592.x
Subject(s) - sociology , postmodernism , epistemology , visibility , narrative , rural sociology , social science , social theory , rural development , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , optics , biology , agriculture
Theoretical and methodological approaches to rural social change are explored, especially those that give visibility to the range of heterogeneous experiences and perspectives that often are overlooked or ignored. Theoretical developments in postmodern, narrative, and feminist theory are described as are the methodological approaches they imply. Examples of research on rural social change that attempt to integrate theory and methods in ways that respect the complicated, processual nature of social life are discussed. They provide concrete illustrations of how alternative approaches can be fruitfully applied to some of the issues and problems rural sociologists typically study.