In response to different agricultural transformation paths,each country and region has formed its own agricultural sociological traditions.The church,government,and university are three important influential forces in the origin of agricultural sociology in the United States.The three essays in this spe-cial issue review and analyze three factors that have shaped the character of American agricultural sociolo-gy from a historical perspective.On this basis,this paper summarizes the outstanding characteristics of A-merican agricultural sociology,namely:comprehensiveness,interdisciplinarity and practicality.In the context of China's path to modernization and rural revitalization,an in-depth study of other countries'tra-ditions is helpful for the discipline construction and capability to improve agricultural sociology in China.
Agricultural sociologyNational traditionDevelopment of a discipline
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