Individual Modernity, Schooling and Economic Performance of Family Farm Operators in Israel

Bibliographic Data

ID2964598
AuthorsChava Nachmias, E Zra Sadan, Ezra Sadan
Year1977
Volume18
Issue3
Pages268-279
Publication date1977-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-1322 • E-ISSN: 1569-1330
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/156854277x00186
OpenAlexW2002410755
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

The findings of this study provide empirical support for the proposition that underlying ethnic differences - among farm operators in Israel - is a consistent set of psycho-social orientation and manifested behavior associated with the individual modernity syndrome. This set is composed of several dimensions characterized intrinsically by a sense of control over the environment, secularism and an egalitarian perspective. It was shown that occidentals and native born occidentals in particular score high on a scale of modernity, whereas farm operators of oriental origin have a traditional value orientation. Modernity is correlated with economic performance. Farm operators who are modern are also economically more effective. Effectiveness is approximated as a net effect over and above the variation attributable to differences in the endowments of conventional inputs and formal schooling. However, this is a preliminary approximation which establishes that an association between economic effectiveness and our indices of modernity exists. It may not suffice to provide parameters having predictive power over the true modernity-productivity relationship. The latter should be derived from an empirical analysis which rests upon a comprehensive causal model. The structure of a comprehensive model, its estimatable forms and the data necessary for estimation are being investigated presently. Some of the considerations guiding the investigation are the following

Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Modernity · Positive economics · Productivity · Proposition · Scale (ratio · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Computer Science · Philosophy · Rural development and sustainability

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