Author: Cancian, Frank
Title: The Innovator's Situation. Upper-Middle-Class Conservatism in Agricultural Communities
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1979. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xvi,159 pp. Textual graphs & tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Study drawing on data from India, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines,Taiwan & the United States,"shows that competition among farmers for social & economic rank has an important effect on who adopts new seeds & other technology, & that access to technical information is less important to this process than is usually assumed" [-dustwrapper blurb]. Contents: Introduction; Rank & Innovation: The Theory; Communities & Data Sets; Economic Rank: The Independent Variable; Innovation: The Dependent Variable; Testing the Hypotheses; Conclusions & Implications: Appendixes: Data & Tests for the Crosstabular Analysis; The Use of Continuous Variables: Issues, Illustrations & Scattergrams; The Analysis of Subpopulations; Backround Publications for Each Study.

Keywords: Agricultural Economics, Rural Sociology, Agrarian Innovation, Anthropology, Economy, Agriculture, Economic, Development, Farming