C Milton Coughenour
Biographic Data
| ID | 138978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Milton Coughenour |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Milton |
| FAMILY NAME | Coughenour |
| SIGNATURE | COUGHENOUR C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Innovating Conservation Agriculture
The extensive sociological studies of conservation agriculture have provided considerable understanding of farmers' use of conservation practices, but attempts to develop predictive models have failed. Reviews of research findings question the utility of the conceptual and methodological perspectives of prior research. The argument advanced here is that actor-network theory is useful in analyzing conservation agriculture as a radically different …
Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation
The Social Construction of Commitment and Satisfaction with Farm and Nonfarm Work
Captured by' but not 'Prisoners' of Capitalism
Agrarianism in American Society
Sociological studies indicate that adherence to the tenets of agrarianism is still widespread in American society. But efforts to identify the structural roots of agrarianism have been only partially successful in that only a small portion of the variation in support of agrarianism can be explained thereby. The multidimensionality of agrarian beliefs and the linkages with underlying values prevalent in American society are explored with data draw…
The Sociology of Agriculture
The Socioeconomic Basis of Farm Enterprise Diversification Decisions1
In contrast to earlier studies, recent research on socioeconomic and ecological factors affecting farm decision making suggests that, at the microlevel, farm size is inversely related to specialization and directly related to diversification decisions but empirical tests have been limited. Using a social behavioral, farming systems perspective, we examine factors affecting diversification and specialization decisions, including land tenure, off-f…
Voluntary and Mandated Institutional Controls on Soil Conservation Behavior of U.S. and Australian Farmers
The search for explanations of farmers’ soil conservation behavior is increasingly focused on institutional rather than personal and farm factors. Erosion control practices used by Queensland, Australia and Kentucky (United States) grain growers in 1982 permit assessment of the impact of the innovative Queensland Area of Erosion Hazard (AEH) soil conservation program instituted in 1972. The Queensland AEH program at that time differed from the U.…
Patterns of Change in Developing Rural Regions
Theories of Social Change
Functional Aspects of Food Consumption Activity and Family Life Cycle Stages
Parsonian theory of the major functional dimensions of social processes-adaptive, goal-gratification, integrative, and pattern-maintenance-is adapted to the description of the process within the family of food purchasing, meal planning, and food consumption. Measures of the first three of these dimensions are developed and related to a classification of families by life cycle stage. Data were obtained from a sample of over 4,000 homemakers in sev…
The Rate of Technological Diffusion Among Locality Groups
The rate of diffusion for single innovations has been found to vary among communities and other types of sociogeographic areas, but whether an area manifestes a characteristic rate of diffusion, and, if so, to what factors it may be related, has not been systematically investigated. Data obtained in personal interviews with farm operators in twelve Kentucky localities in 1950, 1955, and 1960 provide insight into these questions. It is found that …
Innovating Conservation Agriculture
The extensive sociological studies of conservation agriculture have provided considerable understanding of farmers' use of conservation practices, but attempts to develop predictive models have failed. Reviews of research findings question the utility of the conceptual and methodological perspectives of prior research. The argument advanced here is that actor-network theory is useful in analyzing conservation agriculture as a radically different …
Theories of Social Change
Agrarianism in American Society
Sociological studies indicate that adherence to the tenets of agrarianism is still widespread in American society. But efforts to identify the structural roots of agrarianism have been only partially successful in that only a small portion of the variation in support of agrarianism can be explained thereby. The multidimensionality of agrarian beliefs and the linkages with underlying values prevalent in American society are explored with data draw…
The Socioeconomic Basis of Farm Enterprise Diversification Decisions1
In contrast to earlier studies, recent research on socioeconomic and ecological factors affecting farm decision making suggests that, at the microlevel, farm size is inversely related to specialization and directly related to diversification decisions but empirical tests have been limited. Using a social behavioral, farming systems perspective, we examine factors affecting diversification and specialization decisions, including land tenure, off-f…
The Social Construction of Commitment and Satisfaction with Farm and Nonfarm Work
The Rate of Technological Diffusion Among Locality Groups
The rate of diffusion for single innovations has been found to vary among communities and other types of sociogeographic areas, but whether an area manifestes a characteristic rate of diffusion, and, if so, to what factors it may be related, has not been systematically investigated. Data obtained in personal interviews with farm operators in twelve Kentucky localities in 1950, 1955, and 1960 provide insight into these questions. It is found that …
Functional Aspects of Food Consumption Activity and Family Life Cycle Stages
Parsonian theory of the major functional dimensions of social processes-adaptive, goal-gratification, integrative, and pattern-maintenance-is adapted to the description of the process within the family of food purchasing, meal planning, and food consumption. Measures of the first three of these dimensions are developed and related to a classification of families by life cycle stage. Data were obtained from a sample of over 4,000 homemakers in sev…
Voluntary and Mandated Institutional Controls on Soil Conservation Behavior of U.S. and Australian Farmers
The search for explanations of farmers’ soil conservation behavior is increasingly focused on institutional rather than personal and farm factors. Erosion control practices used by Queensland, Australia and Kentucky (United States) grain growers in 1982 permit assessment of the impact of the innovative Queensland Area of Erosion Hazard (AEH) soil conservation program instituted in 1972. The Queensland AEH program at that time differed from the U.…
The Rate of Technological Diffusion Among Locality Groups
The rate of diffusion for single innovations has been found to vary among communities and other types of sociogeographic areas, but whether an area manifestes a characteristic rate of diffusion, and, if so, to what factors it may be related, has not been systematically investigated. Data obtained in personal interviews with farm operators in twelve Kentucky localities in 1950, 1955, and 1960 provide insight into these questions. It is found that …
Theories of Social Change
Functional Aspects of Food Consumption Activity and Family Life Cycle Stages
Parsonian theory of the major functional dimensions of social processes-adaptive, goal-gratification, integrative, and pattern-maintenance-is adapted to the description of the process within the family of food purchasing, meal planning, and food consumption. Measures of the first three of these dimensions are developed and related to a classification of families by life cycle stage. Data were obtained from a sample of over 4,000 homemakers in sev…
Patterns of Change in Developing Rural Regions
Voluntary and Mandated Institutional Controls on Soil Conservation Behavior of U.S. and Australian Farmers
The search for explanations of farmers’ soil conservation behavior is increasingly focused on institutional rather than personal and farm factors. Erosion control practices used by Queensland, Australia and Kentucky (United States) grain growers in 1982 permit assessment of the impact of the innovative Queensland Area of Erosion Hazard (AEH) soil conservation program instituted in 1972. The Queensland AEH program at that time differed from the U.…
The Socioeconomic Basis of Farm Enterprise Diversification Decisions1
In contrast to earlier studies, recent research on socioeconomic and ecological factors affecting farm decision making suggests that, at the microlevel, farm size is inversely related to specialization and directly related to diversification decisions but empirical tests have been limited. Using a social behavioral, farming systems perspective, we examine factors affecting diversification and specialization decisions, including land tenure, off-f…
The Sociology of Agriculture
Captured by' but not 'Prisoners' of Capitalism
Agrarianism in American Society
Sociological studies indicate that adherence to the tenets of agrarianism is still widespread in American society. But efforts to identify the structural roots of agrarianism have been only partially successful in that only a small portion of the variation in support of agrarianism can be explained thereby. The multidimensionality of agrarian beliefs and the linkages with underlying values prevalent in American society are explored with data draw…
The Social Construction of Commitment and Satisfaction with Farm and Nonfarm Work
Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation
Innovating Conservation Agriculture
The extensive sociological studies of conservation agriculture have provided considerable understanding of farmers' use of conservation practices, but attempts to develop predictive models have failed. Reviews of research findings question the utility of the conceptual and methodological perspectives of prior research. The argument advanced here is that actor-network theory is useful in analyzing conservation agriculture as a radically different …
Geography (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Rural development and sustainability (4 works) · Agricultural economics (3 works)