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- Title
The Story of My Drift Into Rural Sociology.
- Authors
Galpin, Charles Josiah
- Abstract
In this article the author shares the story of his drift into rural sociology. The author followed his friend H.C. Taylor, to Washington, to develop a unit of research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to study various sociological phases of the farmer's life. His division was to be known, for a while, as farm life studies. Taylor was to be chief of the office of farm management, an economic research arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The author always had a warm place in his heart for the younger men teaching rural sociology at various colleges and universities who undertook pieces of research in co-operation with his division. Their spontaneous delight in their studies, their loyal work-with-mess, their carrying-through ability left a mark on his own personal stability and equilibrium. The author narrates that it was a great day for rural sociology when the Social Science Research Council offered those handsome annual scholarships to young men of promise who purposed to enter the rural sociological career. It was also a high honor for him to hold for five years a place on the selecting committee. It virtually became his responsibility to pick annually six young men to spend a year or more at some university in graduate study in rural sociology.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RURAL sociology; STUDY &; teaching of farm management; SOCIAL sciences societies; SCHOLARSHIPS; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Rural Sociology, 1937, Vol 2, Issue 4, p415
- ISSN
0036-0112
- Publication type
Article