On Nov. 10 and 11, a group of Emporia State students will embark on Jan Todd’s annual 24-hour “E-mersion” experience. Todd, ...

Agricultural experiment stations have been slow to appreciate sociology, partly because of the division among rural sociologists. One view, represented by Gillette, thinks of rural sociology largely ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Sep., 1927), pp. 211-221 (11 pages) It is doubtful whether rural social investigation has thus far attained the status of research. It has been on too ...

Sociology is defined as "a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.” ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

According to assistant professor of sociology Ingrid Nelson, high school students from rural backgrounds, which includes most of those in Maine, have a number of factors working against them when it ...

AMES, Iowa – The latest version of a once-a-decade Iowa State University poll will survey rural Iowans about quality-of-life issues and how small town residents can come together as one community to ...

Within the rural population of college students, women tend to carry higher levels of student debt than their male counterparts. College students who grew up in rural areas face about 60% more debt ...