1. AN ADDITIONAL NOTE ON 'SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS' AND 'RURAL SOCIOLOGY'
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Fairweather, John R. and Gilles, Jere L.
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RURAL sociology , *PERIODICALS , *SOCIAL science research , *ONTOLOGISM - Abstract
In the article, the authors presents a rejoinder to a comment by Howard Newby on their article in which they had compared the North American and European journals of rural sociology. The study raises two points, which the authors feel must be clarified lest their work be misunderstood. The first concerns the nature of that research and the second concerns the role of ontological assumptions in sociological research. The authors mentioned that their study of the two rural sociology journals was motivated by reflections on their own intellectual activity, and the content analysis of the journals carried out by them was not a sociological investigation. The purpose of their content analysis was to provide an understanding of the characteristics of the two journals from which an explanatory project might proceed. The authors add that Newby's depiction of their work as non-sociological and positivist does underscore an irony. They clarifies that their paper, like many others, does not go beyond the limits of assumptions and data.
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- 1982
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