Include information on this subject only when it deals with its impact on agricultural and rural

policies, programmes, production and related activities;

Rural sociology concerned with the social organization of rural communities, the study of rural life and

living conditions and of rural human relationships;

Studies of rural areas, villages, towns; rural-urban relationships

Settlement; migration; nomadism;

Rural animation: creation and maintenance of mutual understanding among rural people to facilitate

modernization; rural environment, community development;

Rural communities services, including the planning, financing and implementing of public utilities to

enhance community development;

Rural housing policies, planning and programmes;

Rural medical and health services and personnel; accident prevention education programmes and

health protection education programmes; rural social and rehabilitation services, social

welfare, social security, pensions, care of the elderly, day-care centres, recreation centres;

personal accident insurance, health insurance, life insurance, unemployment insurance;

Social structure, social stratification;

Social change, social aspects of agrarian reform;

Social adjustments to settlement, migration;

Social psychology of the farm family; social behaviour,beliefs, customs;

Cultural factors, impact of new cultural trends and technology on rural environment, conflict,

leadership; human ecology.

For: accident prevention devices, see N01

agrarian reform, see E11

agrarian structure, see E90

construction of rural roads, see N01

consumer economics, see E73

demographic structure of rural populations, see E51

economic aspects of migratory or contract labour, see E12

home industries and crafts, see E80

housekeeping, see E80

rural electrification, see N01

social aspects of human feeding, see S01