The redefinition of family farming: Agricultural restructuring and farm adjustment in Waihemo, New Zealand
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The orthodox conceptualizations of the family farm, the responses to agricultural restructuring by the New Zealand farmers and the key characteristics of the Waihemo case study are discussed. The agricultural transformations evident in the Waihemo family farming community and the theoretical implications of the findings, especially the uncoupling of the farm enterprise, household and property are described.
Publication Name: Journal of Rural Studies
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0743-0167
Year: 2004
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Knowledge constructions in research communities: The example of agri-rural researchers in Denmark
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Sociologists of scientific knowledge (SSK) have emphasized that scientific knowledge should be analyzed in the same manner as other fields of knowledge. An empirically based examination of agri-rural research in Denmark demonstrates how a research community is constructed and how it reconstructs itself through a struggle over what is seen to be legitimate fields of research.
Publication Name: Journal of Rural Studies
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0743-0167
Year: 2006
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