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ACLA. See American Country Life Association Adams, Jane, 38 “The Advantages of Farm Life” (Sawtelle), 60–61, 62, 149–85 African Americans. See also race desegregation, 71n, 79 Division staff, 57n, 79 research, 24n, 50, 53, 56, 57, 57n, 59 segregation, 57n, 66–67 social organization of communities, 57n voting rights, 57n agricultural depression, 10, 12 agricultural economics. See also Bureau of Agricultural Economics farm management, 14, 19, 50, 70 history of, 13n, 14, 14n, 17, 19 professional organizations, 11n, 14n, 20n relationship with rural sociology, 14, 19, 19n, 20, 22, 25, 68n Agricultural Economics Division (USDA), 70 agricultural labor. See labor, agricultural Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA), 70, 79 agricultural production, 10, 12n, 12–13, 15, 26, 27, 45 Agricultural Research Service (USDA), 70 Agriculture, Department of. See U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Census. See censuses, agriculture AHEA. See American Home Economics Association Alexander, Frank D., 57, 62, 63, 68n, 93, 110, 111, 119, 123 Allen, Ruth, 71n American Country Life Association (ACLA), 11n, 13n, 20n, 90 American Economics Association, 14n, 15n, 73n American Farm Economics Association, 11n, 14n, 20n, 101, 113 American Farm Management Association, 14n American Home Economics Association (AHEA), 41n establishment, 32 Galpin’s speech (1920), 44, 50, 146–48 membership, 34n presidents, 33n, 34n, 42 product manufacturers and, 35n American Sociological Association (ASA), 13–14n, 63n, 73n, 101, 113, 118 name change, 14n presidents, 25n, 71 Rural Section, 13n American Sociological Society. See American Sociological Association (ASA) Amish, 53, 54, 110, 118, 120 Anderson, W. A., 62 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 18, 27, 43, 62 Apple, Rima D., 32 Appleby, Paul H., 66, 69 Arkansas, Desha County, 56, 122, 123 Arvin, California, 63, 66–67n, 70 ASA. See American Sociological Association Association of Agricultural Economists, 14n Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 13n, 33, 38n, 40, 42n, 41, 86, 97 Atkeson, Mary Meek, 43, 61–62, 61n Atkeson, Thomas Clark, 61n Atwater, Helen W., 34, 94 Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, 57n, 122, 124 Babbitt, Kathleen R., 39 BAE. See Bureau of Agricultural Economics Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 10n, 12, 13n, 27–28 Baumgartel, Walter, 78n, 106 Beecher, Catharine, 33 Bell, Earl H., 55, 77, 117, 120 Bell County, Texas, 58, 122, 123 Benson, Ezra, 64, 69–70 Bernert, Eleanor, 78 index 214 index Black, John, 68n blacks. See African Americans; race Birch, Eleanor M., 79n, 87 Bogue, Allan G., 70 Bowers, Douglas E., 66 Bowles, Gladys K., 78 Bradshaw, Nettie P., 79n Brunner, Edmund de S., 73, 91, 96 Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE). See also Division of Farm Population and Rural Life changing expectations, 66–68, 70 elevation, 22 end of, 64, 69, 70 establishment, 20–21 functions, 22–23, 66, 67–68 funding cuts, 48, 68 predecessor unit, 17–20 Progressive-era roots, 65–66 regional offices, 22n, 68 social sciences within, 19–20, 21–22, 66–67 successor unit, 70 Bureau of Home Economics (USDA), 32, 34n, 38, 42, 44n, 97, 98 Bureau of Markets (USDA), 15n, 16, 41 Bureau of Markets and Rural Organization (USDA), 16 Bureau of Reclamation, 24 Bureau of the Census. See Census Bureau burning of the farm population estimates, 70n business interests, 69n California Arvin and Dinuba study, 63, 66–67n, 70 San Joaquin Valley, 60, 88 Carver, Thomas Nixon, 15, 16, 18, 41, 44n Catt, Carrie Chapman, 35 Census Bureau, 23, 59, 78, 86 Current Population Survey, 59 censuses of agriculture, 24n, 78 decennial, 23, 24n, 51, 78 class differences, 56, 76–77 Clawson, Marion, 25, 102 Clawson, Mary Montgomery, 79n Coahoma County, Mississippi, 57, 63, 66–67, 122, 123 Coleman, Joyce C., 32 Columbia River Basin project, 4n, 24, 25n, 46, 63, 97, 104, 106, 121 Commerce Department, 69n, 86. See also Census Bureau community participation, women’s, 5, 27, 29–30, 32–33, 40, 43, 54–55, 56, 62, 112–15 community social organization studies, 5, 45, 46, 47, 51–58, 106–12, 115–25 community stability/instability studies, 4n, 5, 118, 120, 121 communities chosen, 53 context, 47, 51–52 factors, 53–54 influence, 55–56 motives, 47 multidisciplinary approach, 52 recent citations, 7, 76 rediscovery of, 3 summary report, 47 women’s inclusion, 44–45, 52–56 community studies, 115–25 community social organization studies, 5, 45, 46, 47, 51–58, 106–12, 115–25 community stability/instability studies, 3, 4n, 5, 7, 44–45, 47, 52–56, 76 in rural sociology, 3, 51n 71-county “laboratory” cultural reconnaissance studies, 5, 8, 24, 47, 48, 52...

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