This website is devoted to making the history of

the Rural Sociological Society and rural sociology more accessible.

Additions and suggestions are always welcome!

75th Anniversary of the Rural Sociological Society

On July 26-29, 2012, the Rural Sociological Society celebrated its 75th Anniversary.

Below are some of the resources and displays developed by the RSS Historian for this celebration.

For a brief overview on how the RSS was started, click here.

 

For some of the "Firsts" in the history of rural sociology and the RSS, click here.

Posters

• RSS Presidents (1938 - 2012)

• Editors of Rural Sociology (1936 - 2012)

• Editors of The Rural Sociologist (TRS) (1973 - 2012)

• Distinguished Rural Sociologist Award Winners (1981 - 2011)

• American Sociological Society's Section on Rural Sociology (1922-1937)

• Photo Credits

Display Table

• Display Books (These books were created to contain copies of original documents from the RSS Archives.  The pdf files below contain the historical summaries and other parts of the display volumes, but not copies of the original documents.)

• The American Sociological Society's Section on Rural Sociology

• Creating the Journal Rural Sociology

• Establishing the Rural Sociological Society

• Organizing the 1st World Congress of Rural Sociology: The Beginnings of the International Rural Sociological Association

• Congress Strikes Again: The Era of the 'Big Chill'

• Trivia Game

• Full Trivia Game (click to play)

• Booklet of Trivia Game (use "booklet" option for best printing)

• Score sheet

• Display Table Poster

RSS Oral History Project

   Brochure

   Oral History Project Information

   Meet the Videographer

   Oral History Project Website

Conference Program (Contents were re-designed to match the conference program.)

• Timeline of selected events in the history of the Rural Sociological Society

• First Officers of the RSS 

• A Communication from the Retiring President on the start of the RSS (O.D. Duncan, 1953)

75th Anniversary Celebration Party

• Welcome from Olaf F. Larson

  Professor Emeritus, Cornell University

  Born: 1910; Original member of RSS; President RSS 1957-1958; Distinguished Rural Sociologist 1985

   

  

   

     Video (large mpeg 2 file) (Good quality.  Works with Windows Media Player)

     Video (smaller mpeg4 file) (Low quality but works with Quicktime Player)

     Audio Only (smaller file) (mp3 file)

     Career Highlights

• Trivia Game Prize

Commemorative Coin from the 3rd World Congress of Rural Sociology

 

Please send suggestions, ideas, or changes to:

Julie N. Zimmerman

RSS Historian

Associate Professor, Rural Sociology

Dept. of Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky

jzimm@email.uky.edu

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