Applied Sociology Notes.

This article analyze a teaching situation which involves the Departments of Rural Sociology and of Agricultural Education at North Carolina State College. During the past four decades, vocational agriculture (vo-ag) has become one of major rural life programs in several states as well as in the nation as a whole. Vocational agriculture is now one of the major rural life educational programs in the United States. The rural texts devote very little attention to the vo-ag program--the variation is from failure to mention the program at all to giving only a paragraph or two; and, as an aside, it might be pointed up that some of the statements made reveal only a superficial understanding of the program. The vo-ag program is almost entirely community-oriented while the Extension Service is not so orientated or at least not nearly to the same degree. The supervising teachers may have unfavorable attitudes toward adding research tools to the teacher role--they have not considered this as a part of their role.