Peter F Korsching
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter F Korsching |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter F |
| FAMILY NAME | Korsching |
| SIGNATURE | KORSCHING P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Science Communication and the Rationality of Public Opinion Formation
Because research indicates that people’s value orientations significantly affect their opinions about advanced technologies some risk scholars argue that technology policy should reflect the recommendations of experts rather than the opinions of a value-driven public. This suggested approach might be bolstered to the extent that people use substantive (value-driven) rather than formal (reason-driven) rationality when assessing the recommendations…
Devil's gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story
Farmer support of local organizations, causes, and charities through philanthropy
As rural communities lose population, businesses close their doors, and financial resources become scarce, local leaders experience increasing difficulty providing necessary facilities and services to ensure an acceptable quality of life. A strategy for obtaining additional resources to meet local needs is through philanthropy or charitable giving of local residents. In farming communities, estate bequests have particular appeal because the legac…
Graduate Student Professional Development in Applied Sociology Courses through Group Research Projects
Designing stimulating and scholarly course projects for graduate students in an applied sociology course is a challenge. We discuss the development and continued refinement a type of course project that involves all students in the course in a collaborative research project and helps them understand the process of conducting and reporting applied research. Objectives of the project for the students are: (1) professionalization and socialization i…
Community Leaders, Business Ownership, and Support of Entrepreneurship Development: The Role of Macroentrepreneurs
Macroentrepreneurs are community leaders with entrepreneurial experience and are likely to understand the problems of initiating business ventures within communities. Through their leadership role they are assumed to create a facilitative community1 entrepreneurship environment by helping develop the local social, economic, and physical infrastructure to benefit nascent and extant entrepreneurs and in turn the broader community. Also identified a…
The Social Fabric and Innovation Diffusion: Symbolic Adoption of Food Irradiation
This study used a longitudinal, panel design to examine the effects of negative information acquisition, compliance with opinion leader endorsements, and social demographic characteristics on consumers' symbolic adoption of food irradiation. Data collection coincided with the first market test of irradiated food conducted by a commercial firm, which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2000. Approximately half the subjects (N= 116) received a…
Rural Telephone Company Adoption of Service Innovations: A Community Field Theory Approach
Recent telecommunications innovations have the potential to improve the economic vitality of rural communities, but many rural telephone companies have not adopted them to provide needed advanced services. To explain the differences in adoption by rural telephone companies we distinguish between service innovations, adopted primarily to improve direct services to clients, and operations innovations, adopted primarily to improve the operation of t…
Soil Erosion as a Community Issue: Public Perceptions of Off-Site Impacts
Rural telephone companies: Offering technology innovations to enhance the economic development of communities
New technologies for rural America: Boon or bane
Applied Social Research
Relationships between information sources and farmers’ conservation perceptions and behavior
Traditionally the primary sources of information used by farmers in the decision to adopt new practices were, in descending order of importance, (1) other farmers, (2) local agricultural product dealers, and (3) local government agencies. Mass media sources were relatively unimportant. Six hundred southwestern Iowa farmers were interviewed to determine their sources of conservation information. The top three sources named were (1) farm magazines,…
The Ecology of an Ecological Study: Comments on Marple's “Technological Innovation and Organizational Survival”
In the use of historical data for sociological analysis there is always the danger of misinterpretation or interpretation out of context. This may be a particular problem when familiarity with the subject that is being researched is limited. Technological Innovation and Organization Survival: A Population Ecology Study of Nineteenth-Century American Railroads by David Marple (1982) suffers from this problem. Generally, the article is theoreticall…
Perception of Property Settlement Payments and Replacement Housing among Displaced Persons
Farmer support of local organizations, causes, and charities through philanthropy
As rural communities lose population, businesses close their doors, and financial resources become scarce, local leaders experience increasing difficulty providing necessary facilities and services to ensure an acceptable quality of life. A strategy for obtaining additional resources to meet local needs is through philanthropy or charitable giving of local residents. In farming communities, estate bequests have particular appeal because the legac…
The Social Fabric and Innovation Diffusion: Symbolic Adoption of Food Irradiation
This study used a longitudinal, panel design to examine the effects of negative information acquisition, compliance with opinion leader endorsements, and social demographic characteristics on consumers' symbolic adoption of food irradiation. Data collection coincided with the first market test of irradiated food conducted by a commercial firm, which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2000. Approximately half the subjects (N= 116) received a…
Science Communication and the Rationality of Public Opinion Formation
Because research indicates that people’s value orientations significantly affect their opinions about advanced technologies some risk scholars argue that technology policy should reflect the recommendations of experts rather than the opinions of a value-driven public. This suggested approach might be bolstered to the extent that people use substantive (value-driven) rather than formal (reason-driven) rationality when assessing the recommendations…
Community Leaders, Business Ownership, and Support of Entrepreneurship Development: The Role of Macroentrepreneurs
Macroentrepreneurs are community leaders with entrepreneurial experience and are likely to understand the problems of initiating business ventures within communities. Through their leadership role they are assumed to create a facilitative community1 entrepreneurship environment by helping develop the local social, economic, and physical infrastructure to benefit nascent and extant entrepreneurs and in turn the broader community. Also identified a…
Soil Erosion as a Community Issue: Public Perceptions of Off-Site Impacts
Relationships between information sources and farmers’ conservation perceptions and behavior
Traditionally the primary sources of information used by farmers in the decision to adopt new practices were, in descending order of importance, (1) other farmers, (2) local agricultural product dealers, and (3) local government agencies. Mass media sources were relatively unimportant. Six hundred southwestern Iowa farmers were interviewed to determine their sources of conservation information. The top three sources named were (1) farm magazines,…
Rural Telephone Company Adoption of Service Innovations: A Community Field Theory Approach
Recent telecommunications innovations have the potential to improve the economic vitality of rural communities, but many rural telephone companies have not adopted them to provide needed advanced services. To explain the differences in adoption by rural telephone companies we distinguish between service innovations, adopted primarily to improve direct services to clients, and operations innovations, adopted primarily to improve the operation of t…
New technologies for rural America: Boon or bane
Perception of Property Settlement Payments and Replacement Housing among Displaced Persons
The Ecology of an Ecological Study: Comments on Marple's “Technological Innovation and Organizational Survival”
In the use of historical data for sociological analysis there is always the danger of misinterpretation or interpretation out of context. This may be a particular problem when familiarity with the subject that is being researched is limited. Technological Innovation and Organization Survival: A Population Ecology Study of Nineteenth-Century American Railroads by David Marple (1982) suffers from this problem. Generally, the article is theoreticall…
Relationships between information sources and farmers’ conservation perceptions and behavior
Traditionally the primary sources of information used by farmers in the decision to adopt new practices were, in descending order of importance, (1) other farmers, (2) local agricultural product dealers, and (3) local government agencies. Mass media sources were relatively unimportant. Six hundred southwestern Iowa farmers were interviewed to determine their sources of conservation information. The top three sources named were (1) farm magazines,…
Applied Social Research
Soil Erosion as a Community Issue: Public Perceptions of Off-Site Impacts
Rural telephone companies: Offering technology innovations to enhance the economic development of communities
New technologies for rural America: Boon or bane
Rural Telephone Company Adoption of Service Innovations: A Community Field Theory Approach
Recent telecommunications innovations have the potential to improve the economic vitality of rural communities, but many rural telephone companies have not adopted them to provide needed advanced services. To explain the differences in adoption by rural telephone companies we distinguish between service innovations, adopted primarily to improve direct services to clients, and operations innovations, adopted primarily to improve the operation of t…
The Social Fabric and Innovation Diffusion: Symbolic Adoption of Food Irradiation
This study used a longitudinal, panel design to examine the effects of negative information acquisition, compliance with opinion leader endorsements, and social demographic characteristics on consumers' symbolic adoption of food irradiation. Data collection coincided with the first market test of irradiated food conducted by a commercial firm, which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2000. Approximately half the subjects (N= 116) received a…
Graduate Student Professional Development in Applied Sociology Courses through Group Research Projects
Designing stimulating and scholarly course projects for graduate students in an applied sociology course is a challenge. We discuss the development and continued refinement a type of course project that involves all students in the course in a collaborative research project and helps them understand the process of conducting and reporting applied research. Objectives of the project for the students are: (1) professionalization and socialization i…
Community Leaders, Business Ownership, and Support of Entrepreneurship Development: The Role of Macroentrepreneurs
Macroentrepreneurs are community leaders with entrepreneurial experience and are likely to understand the problems of initiating business ventures within communities. Through their leadership role they are assumed to create a facilitative community1 entrepreneurship environment by helping develop the local social, economic, and physical infrastructure to benefit nascent and extant entrepreneurs and in turn the broader community. Also identified a…
Farmer support of local organizations, causes, and charities through philanthropy
As rural communities lose population, businesses close their doors, and financial resources become scarce, local leaders experience increasing difficulty providing necessary facilities and services to ensure an acceptable quality of life. A strategy for obtaining additional resources to meet local needs is through philanthropy or charitable giving of local residents. In farming communities, estate bequests have particular appeal because the legac…
Devil's gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story
Science Communication and the Rationality of Public Opinion Formation
Because research indicates that people’s value orientations significantly affect their opinions about advanced technologies some risk scholars argue that technology policy should reflect the recommendations of experts rather than the opinions of a value-driven public. This suggested approach might be bolstered to the extent that people use substantive (value-driven) rather than formal (reason-driven) rationality when assessing the recommendations…
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