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Lorraine Garkovich
Researcher at University of Kentucky
Publications - 12
Citations - 1048
Lorraine Garkovich is an academic researcher from University of Kentucky. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Rural sociology. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 12 publications receiving 972 citations.
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Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework is provided to understand a cultural group's definition of and relationship with nature and the environment, drawing on a social constructionist perspective that includes aspects of phenomenology and symbolic interactionism.
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Assessing the influence of farm women's self-identity on task allocation and decision making.
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Harvest of Hope: Family Farming/Farming Families
TL;DR: Harvest of Hope as discussed by the authors is a story of farm family life through the words of those who live it, and the saga of the generations who have lived and worked on Basin Spring farm in western Kentucky is the thread that binds together the stories of eighty other farm families.
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Farm business and operator variables associated with bulk tank somatic cell count from dairy herds in the southeastern United States.
Karen L. DeLong,Dayton M. Lambert,Susan Schexnayder,Peter D. Krawczel,Mark Fly,Lorraine Garkovich,Steve Oliver +6 more
TL;DR: Analyzing the farm and operator characteristics associated with BTSCC in dairy herds by analyzing a survey of dairy producers in the southeastern United States suggests that proactive producers were more likely to report lower BtsCC, and it may be possible to achieve improved milk quality, evident from lowered B TSCC, across the region.
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Turnaround Migration as an Episode of Collective Behavior.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a collective behavior model for examining the turnaround as a specific form of the craze called the mass movement and explore the factors influencing the decline of the turnaround migration.