ABSTRACT
Clearly, rural sociology should have devoted some of its efforts to studying how exactly rural societies have resisted the outside world; instead, most of its work has focused on the mechanisms for change, adaptation and integration in modern society. The problem has to be tackled at its roots by examining how rural sociology has evolved and what it has taken as its subject-matter in short, by attempting a sociology of rural sociology. Thus, rural sociology proclaimed itself a sociology focusing on the advancement of a category of citizens a sociology intended to serve a cause. The trajectory of rural sociology has thus been ambiguous! battening on to the crisis of the rural world, it has proclaimed the rural to be an independent reality, while promptly rejecting it as a social category. Geographical space continues to play a crucial role in social relations, though in ways that differ from the territorial model that has dominated rural sociology to date.
