
Rural Sociology Group
The Rural Sociology Group (RSO) studies the dynamics of food provisioning, agrarian change, and rural and regional development with an international comparative perspective. Specific attention is paid to the different levels at which transformation processes occur and are shaped, as well as to the different actors, institutions and modes of political organization involved. We study and analyse these transformation processes from a range of critical sociological perspectives, combining qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Research themes
Education
The Rural Sociology Group teaches courses on topics linked to rurality, food provisioning and place-based development. Within these fields of research, we offer possibilities to do a bachelor, master thesis or internship. We teach in a number of different bachelor and master programmes.
Latest publications
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‘Boeren willen erkenning voor wat ze doen’
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Leefbaarheid op het platteland: uiteenlopen van idylles en werkelijkheden : Een literatuuronderzoek naar wat we denken te begrijpen van leefbaarheid op het platteland
Wageningen : Wageningen Environmental Research (Rapport / Wageningen Environmental Research 3231) - p.