Government Agencies and the Emergence of Agricultural and Rural Sociology in Early American
The agricultural and rural sociology is an early subdiscipline of sociology in the United States,and its emergence was largely facilitated by the support of governmental institutions.This article examines the establishment of the U.S.Department of Agriculture(USDA)and its scientific approach during the Civil War,the birth of the Committee on Rural Life(CRL)and agricultural and rural sociology during the Progressive Era,and the professional leadership and knowledge production of the Office of Farm Popula-tion and Rural Life during the two World Wars.It analyzes the importance of U.S.government agencies in the emergence of early agricultural and rural sociology.The study points out that the U.S.government did not intervene in agricultural and rural affairs until the Civil War.However,from the very beginning,it formed a scientific and professional style of governance,with experts and scholars serving as heads of departments and agencies.Subsequently,it established a wide range of cooperative agreements with vari-ous colleges and universities to cultivate faculty members in agricultural and rural sociology,to expand the topics of agricultural and rural sociology,and to carry out agricultural and rural services,which not only contributed to the development of early agricultural and rural sociology but also provided important infor-mational data for the government to formulate public policy.
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