农村社会学是一个传统上与农村社会结构和冲突研究相关的社会学领域，尽管诸如粮食和农业或自然资源获取等主题领域超越了传统的农村空间边界（社会学指南2011）。它是世界上许多地方的一个活跃领域，起源于1910年代的美国，与国家农业部和土地授予大学农业学院有着密切的联系。食品与农业社会学是农村社会学的研究热点之一，其研究领域大多集中于农业生产经济学。其他研究领域包括农村移民和其他人口模式、环境社会学、以便利设施为导向的发展、公共土地政策、所谓的“新兴”发展、社会混乱、自然资源社会学（包括森林、采矿、渔业和其他地区）、农村文化、身份认同、农村卫生保健和教育。国家政策。许多农村社会学家从事发展研究、社区研究、社区发展和环境研究。大部分研究涉及发展中国家或第三世界。
Rural sociology is a field of sociology traditionally associated with the study of social structure and conflict in rural areas although topical areas such as food and agriculture or natural resource access transcend traditional rural spatial boundaries (Sociology Guide 2011). It is an active field in much of the world, originating in the United States in the 1910s with close ties to the national Department of Agriculture and land-grant university colleges of agriculture.[1]The sociology of food and agriculture is one focus of rural sociology, and much of the field is dedicated to the economics of farm production. Other areas of study include rural migration and other demographic patterns, environmental sociology, amenity-led development, public lands policies, so-called "boomtown" development, social disruption, the sociology of natural resources (including forests, mining, fishing and other areas), rural cultures, and identities, rural health care, and educational policies. Many rural sociologists work in the areas of development studies, community studies, community development, and environmental studies. Much of the research involves developing countries or the Third World.
