Jeffrey L Eighmy / MENNONITE ARCHITECTURE DIACHRONIC EVIDENCE FOR RAPID 1989
Description: Price and stock labels on front pastedown, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcover.; "It was hypothesized that the extreme normative constraints characteristic of conservative rural communities encourages a high adoption rate to maintain uniformity and for the same reason retards the date of intitial introduction of innovations. It is the latter that leaves the impression of conservative social change and the former that explains the cases of rapid diffusion. It was decided to investigate this proposal through a comparison of diffusion in a conservative rural population with another, less conservative population. Two Mennonite groups, the Sommerfelders and Altkolonier, in Mexico come close to meeting the ideal requirements and were studied during nine months of field work." - P.
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