▪ Abstract One of the most profound changes in the United States in the past century is the
national abandonment of farming as a livelihood strategy. This change is evident both in the …

Social scientists have a long history of concern with the effects of industrialized farming on
communities. Recently, the topic has taken on new importance as corporate farming laws in …

Principal-agent models have been the basis for an extensive set of studies relating
bureaucracy to elected officials. Yet despite the outpouring of research, there has been little …

In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B.
Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture …

Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes
from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit …

Framing the special issue on the transformation of Food and Agricultural Policy, this article
introduces the concept of post-exceptionalism in public policies. The analysis of change in …

Here, Wm. Alex McIntosh analyzes the relationship between food and nutrition and social
factors, using a wide array of sociological theories. The author applies theories of social …

For nearly 25 years, word of changes in our food has percolated through the press, occupied
untold bits of memory in computers on the Internet, and occasionally burst into the nightly …

Two popular yet seemingly contradictory images of American society persist. In one the
world is shrinking. The rapid movement of people and goods through the emergence of a …

Quality and sustainability are both socially constructed, ambiguous terms, but they have not
been heretofore linked in the rural studies literature. The “quality turn” has received …