History of Rural Sociology
Rural sociology was the first and for a time the largest branch of American Sociology. Histories of the field include Lowry Nelson's Rural Sociology: Its Origins and Growth in the United States and Edmund deS Brunner's The Growth of a Science: A Half-Century of Rural Sociological Research in the United States.
Rural sociology became prominent during the late industrial revolution in France, Ireland, Prussia, Scandinavia, and the US. As urban incomes and quality of life rose, a social gap appeared between urban and rural dwellers.
Early works of Max Weber in the late 19th century were concerned with rural sociology. The term was first coined in the USA.
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