Rural Sociological Society

[Cecelia Seiner]

The 86th annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, USA at the Madison Concourse Hotel July 24-28, 2024. The meeting will explore the theme of Reconceptualizing Rurality: Toward a More Diverse and Inclusive Understanding.

This year the RSS Program Committee along with several research interest groups (RIGs) planned field trips to help RSS members explore and engage with the local communities. This year's field trips are:

Rural Sociology explores sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging social issues and new approaches to recurring social issues affecting rural people and places. It is the journal of the Rural Sociological Society.

The RSS is a professional social science association that promotes the generation, application, and dissemination of sociological knowledge. The Society seeks to enhance the quality of rural life, communities, and the environment. This website is intended to serve all those interested in rural people and places.

The core activities of the Rural Sociological Society are our peer-reviewed journal, Rural Sociology, our annual conference, and support for communities of scholars concerned with specific rural topics. Through these activities, the RSS has provided leadership in scholarship, policies, and advocacy. Since its founding in 1937, the RSS has traced changes in rural life and livelihoods, demography, community structures and economies, technologies, environmental conditions, and agriculture and food systems.

In these politically turbulent times, we wish to share with others the core values that we believe animate and organize our activities as members and leaders of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS). We believe in the free expression of ideas, in civil discourse and mutual respect among participants, and in the value of scientific research without political considerations. We oppose actions and words that demean, exclude, and otherwise marginalize individuals and groups of different genders, races, identities, sexual orientations, and national origins. We seek to assist vulnerable and marginalized peoples wherever they may be.

Why RSS? RSS offers multiple opportunities to interact with others who share your interests in rural places both in the United States and internationally. We have fourteen Research and Interest Groups. RSS keeps you informed of professional opportunities via our website and monthly eBulletin. A subscription to our journal Rural Sociology is included with your membership. RSS members receive a discounted registration rate to our Annual Meeting (held late July or August each year). RSS members take an active part in the program of the annual meeting by submitting posters, papers, panels, and organized sessions. RSS offers leadership opportunities

What are Research and Interest Groups? Research and Interest Groups (RIGs) reflect the substantive interests of RSS Members and serve as an important avenue for connecting members with similar interests. RIGs serve a critical role in RSS including: identifying, developing, and recruiting for the annual RSS conference; planning special events, speakers, and field trips for the annual conference; providing intellectual leadership in their respective areas; rewarding achievement through internal awards and recognitions; and creating opportunities for members, particularly graduate students, to network and identify colleagues with similar interests.

If you would like us to share announcements (calls for papers, job postings and the like) with our members, as related to rural sociology, email the RSS Business Office with all information you would like dispersed. If relevant, we will post the announcement on our site, monthly eBulletin, and social media platforms.

RSS, a professional social science association that promotes the generation, application, and dissemination of sociological knowledge, seeks to enhance the quality of rural life, communities and the environment. It is intended to serve all those interested in rural people and places, as well as to support academics and practitioners.

Teixeira-Poit, who joined A&T in July 2018 and teaches in the John R. and Kathy R. Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, has nearly two decades of experience conducting mixed-methods research projects that seek to promote health equity through complex intervention implementation and evaluation. Her research has identified how policies and interventions moderate relationships between health determinants and population health outcomes. Her research has been funded by agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation.

Gabrielle Heyward, a senior studying multimedia journalism at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has begun a one-year sports journalism internship with ESPN as a Rhoden Fellow.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University undergraduate students Jacquelle Joseph-Lainez and Jayden Seay have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Du Bois Scholars program at Harvard University.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is among the eight new member institutions the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has selected to participate in the Student Success Equity Intensive (SSEI).

Dr. Keiko Tanaka, Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Rural Sociology in Community, Leadership, and Development in the College of Agriculture, has just finished her term as the 81st President of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS). RSS is the national professional society for scholars of rural life, communities, and the environment. Dr. Kanaka is the 15th president with ties to the University of Kentucky and the 8th person to serve as RSS president while a faculty member at UK. This is one of the highest numbers from any one institution in RSS history.

The Rural Sociological Society (RSS) is a professional social science association that promotes the generation, application, and dissemination of sociological knowledge. The RSS seeks to enhance the quality of rural life, communities, and the environment. It was officially established on December 29, 1937,[1] in order to promote the development of rural sociology through teaching, research and extension. Membership in the RSS includes persons professionally employed in the field of rural sociology, or those interested in the objectives of the Society. The RSS holds meetings in different locations every year.

The activities of the Rural Sociological Society are a peer-reviewed journal, Rural Sociology, an annual conference, and support for scholars concerned with rural topics. The RSS aims to give leadership in scholarship, policies, and advocacy. Since its founding in 1937, the RSS has traced changes in rural life, demography, community structures and economies, technologies, environmental conditions, agriculture and food systems.

Before the RSS, those interested in the discipline met as the Rural Sociology Section of the American Sociological Society, which later became the American Sociological Association. The meeting at which the formation of the RSS was approved had not started with that in mind. Rather, a committee of section members appointed previously presented a report that supported continued association with the parent organization, although one of the five members submitted a minority report calling for separation. After substantial discussion, a vote to establish a separate organization carried. That same day, a provisional constitution and by-laws were established by the founding RSS members; they still guide activities, although both have been amended through the years as membership and issues have changed.[2]

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