RURAL SOCIOLOGY.

RURAL sociology; SOCIAL participation; RURAL families; LAND use planning; AGRICULTURE

This article presents a list of U.S. official reports and proceedings related to rural sociology. "Social Participation in Rural Farm Families," contains data on membership and participation in formal organizations of all members ten years of age and over in 850 families in Conland County, New York. The report titled "Local Participation in Land-Use Planning," is based on interviews with county agents and others and with woo farmers in four Kentucky counties including each member of land-use planning committees as well as a "control" group of noncomrnitteemen. "Some Factors Affecting Church Attendance in Rural Oswego County," is based on about 1000 completed schedules, a supplementary questionnaire sent to forty ministers, and secondary sources. "A Restudy of the Number and Kinds of Organizations in Which Rural People Take Part," is based on an inventory blank mailed to some 5000 community leaders in the state. Twenty percent return classified by farming-type area and rurality of township of each farming type area. "Adjustment of Rural Youth to Farm and Home Life," contains about 1000 schedules collected to represent the various areas of Ohio, each giving general information, attitudes toward home life, attitude toward farming and a measure of home environment.