Church Work in State Universities: 1909-1910, Report of the Third Annual Conference of Church Workers in State Universities, Held at the University of ... February 15, 16, 17, 1910 (Classic Reprint)
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It was a working conference throughout. The members sat about a long table in the auditorium of Association Hall. Work, not eloquence, was the objective and results of far-reaching significance were achieved.
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4-H Club Work: Old and New Objectives (Classic Reprint)
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Another trend in the work is worth mentioning in this connection. The 4-h clubs have always had a club organization. But, at first, this officering and management of the'club's affairs were apt to be regarded as only a mechanical necessity for the immediate purposes of the club. Organization itself was not subjected to the sociological test of good Olfganization. So it sometimes happened that a shiftless. Type of club behavior was the outcome. Now, however, itis being discerned that organisation is in itself a piece of social activity and group behavior which has a positive bearing upon the permanence of the agricultural.industry. Defective organization and thoughtless group conduct of 4-h clubs, it becomes evident, lead not only to ineffective club results, but what is still worse, to bad sociological habits and group behavior in the community. So it has come about that club organization has been raised to the rank of an objective among other objectives. But this trend must be interpreted like the economic trend, as more perfectly putting into effect the old original objectives, rather than a veering away from the original purposes.
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Rural Social Centers In Wisconsin; Volume 234 Of Bulletin (University Of Wisconsin. Agricultural Experiment Station)
Charles Josiah Galpin
Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin, 1914
Social Science; Sociology; Rural; Community centers; Social Science / Sociology / Rural; Sociology, Rural
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Charles Josiah Galpin was an American sociologist.
Background
Galpin was born on March 16, 1864 in Hamilton, New York, the oldest of the three sons and one daughter of Leman Quintilian Galpin and Frances Cordelia (Look) Galpin. On his father's side he was of French and Welsh origin; on his mother's, of English. His father, a graduate of Madison (later Colgate) University and Colgate Theological Seminary, was a Baptist minister who served rural parishes in Michigan and in central New York. Both parents had grown up on farms, his father in Virginia and his mother in New York state, and most of his closest relatives were farmers.
Education
After attending schools in rural areas in central New York, Galpin entered Colgate Academy and then Colgate University, from which he received the B. A. degree in 1885.
Career
From 1886 to 1889 Galpin taught science and mathematics at Union Academy, a secondary school in Belleville, New York. In 1888 he received an M. A. from Colgate and took a position teaching history and English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. He returned in 1891 to Union Academy, where, save for a year of study at Harvard where he received an M. A. in philosophy in 1895, he served as principal until 1901. Union Academy was run much like a Scandinavian folk school, and most of the students were the children of dairy farmers. Learning about the potential scientific character of agriculture, Galpin established in 1901 a department to teach agriculture, possibly the first in a high school in the United States. Persistent insomnia, however, prompted him to resign his principalship that year, and for three years he operated a forty-acre cutover farm in Michigan. He next spent a year in Walworth County, Wisconsin, where he established a new milk plant in which one of his brothers, a chemist, had a business interest. In 1905 another brother, then a Baptist minister in Madison, Wisconsin, persuaded Galpin to become Baptist "university pastor, " to work with students at the University of Wisconsin. He held this post for six years. At Wisconsin, Galpin became acquainted with Henry C. Taylor, chairman of the department of agricultural economics, who stimulated him to pursue his natural curiosity about the social aspects of rural life. In a paper presented before the Wisconsin Country Life Association in 1911, Galpin mapped the "social topography" of his former residence, Belleville, New York, in order to show the social relationships which existed between the farm and village homes in the area. On the basis of this report, and with Taylor's backing, Galpin joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1911 to teach courses in problems of country life. Thus, at the age of forty-seven, he drifted into the work which was to make him one of the pioneers in the sociology of rural life. Because of the lack of useful texts on this subject, he began work on two of his own, later published as Rural Life (1918) and Rural Social Problems (1924). Galpin sought firsthand knowledge to better understand the uncharted realm of rural social forces. Devising a questionnaire and employing a sampling technique, he conducted a broad study of Wisconsin's Walworth County. His report, published by the university's Agricultural Experiment Station in 1915 as The Social Anatomy of an Agricultural Community, had a lasting influence on rural sociology and social ecology. It identified by means of a striking set of maps the "social watersheds" of what Galpin came to see as the basic, repeating social unit emerging in rural society, a natural community of farm and village (or small city) families. Although he was later criticized for placing too great an emphasis on trade as the most important form of "rurban" interdependence, Galpin also noted the community-forming influences of shared nationality, religion, and associational activities. Galpin was not the first to detect a social connection between farm and town, but he was a pioneer in attempting to define scientifically both the nature and scope of this connection. In 1919 Galpin left Wisconsin for federal service in Washington at the invitation of Taylor, now head of the Office of Farm Management, the economic research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture. Galpin established a unit in the department for research into the sociological phases of farm life, known initially as the Division of Farm Life Studies, which he headed until his retirement in 1934. He gave great impetus to the development of the special discipline of rural sociology, in part through research by his own small staff, but especially by encouraging rural life studies at colleges and universities in thirty-seven states, including the agricultural experiment stations at the state colleges of agriculture. Further, Galpin almost single-handedly persuaded the United States Bureau of the Census to divide the rural population into "rural farm" and "rural non-farm" in the collection and publication of population statistics beginning in 1920. On several trips abroad, Galpin came into contact with rural life in European countries. At the International Conference on Rural Life (1927) he was decorated by the Belgian king for his contributions to the country life movement. He died of myocarditis at his home in Falls Church, Virginia, at the age of eighty-three.
Achievements
Galpin is considered one of the founders of agricultural sociology. He is known for his works.
