Thomas Lyson Papers, 1971-2007.
Collection Number: 21-33-3600

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Thomas Lyson Papers, 1971-2007.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-33-3600
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, course material, and publications concerning Lyson's work.
Creator:
Lyson, Thomas A.
Quanitities:
5.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University from 1987-2007.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence, course material, photographs, and publications concerning Lyson's work on community, civic engagement and problem-solving approaches to development, as well as local and global aspects of agriculture, food, nutrition, and health. Papers and examinations from his years as a doctoral student at Michigan State and files and a manuscript relating to academic job searches in the late 1970s.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Thomas Lyson papers, #21-33-3600. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Department of Development Sociology
Subjects:
Land use, Rural -- United States.
Rural development -- United States.
Farms -- United States.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I: Publications
Box 1 Folder 1
Black Farming Shift-Share
1966-80
Box 1 Folder 2
A.G. Labor Market/Situs
1977
Box 1 Folder 3
Sexrole Attitudes w/s. Brown
Box 1 Folder 4
NLS Migration
1978-85
Box 1 Folder 5
SSSP Integration
1981
Box 1 Folder 6
Black Farmers-Phylon
1979
Box 1 Folder 7
Plan to Become Teachers
1977-78
Box 1 Folder 8
Profiling South Carolina's Ag. & Home Economics Students
Box 1 Folder 9
High School Desegregation
1979-80
Box 1 Folder 10
Shift-Share (AERI)/Sex Segregation in College Curriculums
1981
Box 1 Folder 11
Colclough & Lyson-Southern Soc. Paper
1978
Box 1 Folder 12
Rural Civil Righrts and SC Poverty
Box 1 Folder 13
Teacher AERJ
1982-84
Box 1 Folder 14
Farm Structure Bulletin
1985
Box 1 Folder 15
Gil and Doug
1989
Box 1 Folder 16
Sustainable Agriculuture/Biotech
2001
Box 1 Folder 17
North Carolina
Box 1 Folder 18
Farmer's Market
1994
Box 1 Folder 19
CIARE
1994
Box 1 Folder 20
Big Business and Community Welfare
2001
Box 1 Folder 21
Small Establishment
Box 1 Folder 22
Commodity-Civic
1995-00
Box 1 Folder 23
S-114 Bulletin: Sys.
Box 1 Folder 24
FALK-Teacher Paper
1980
Box 1 Folder 25
B-W Curric Choice
1981
Box 1 Folder 26
Intra-Industry Situs (Revision of RSS)
1979-80
Box 1 Folder 27
SAAS-Panel Presentation, S-114
Box 1 Folder 28
Appaiachian Youth Paper
Box 1 Folder 29
Buddy Can You Spare A Job...TAS The New Academic Hustle
1978
Box 1 Folder 30
Farm Youth Paper IJCS
1977
Box 1 Folder 31
Fotonove 112
Box 1 Folder 32
Famer's Study-Burch/Lyson
Box 1 Folder 33
Occupational Values and Commitment to Farming
Box 1 Folder 34
Starr
1985
Box 1 Folder 35
Curriculum Typicality-Soc. & Soc. Reserves
1977-1979
Box 1 Folder 36
Sex Differences-RS
1980
Box 1 Folder 37
Ag. Performance in Two Dairy Communities
Box 1 Folder 38
Milk
1995
Box 1 Folder 39
Production Function, Crop Diversity and Conventional Vs. Sustainable Ag.
1993
Box 1 Folder 40
Decisions on Farms
1983-85
Box 1 Folder 41
Private-Public
1988-95
Box 1 Folder 42
Black Land Grant Colleges
1983-95
Box 1 Folder 43
SSSP-Unemployment
1982
Box 1 Folder 44
Sex Role Status Attainment
1981
Box 1 Folder 45
Sex Differences-Male or Female Career Line
1981-1983
Box 1 Folder 46
Cruise Dairy
1990-93
Box 1 Folder 47
AGRIC-OCC-NZ-US
1988
Box 1 Folder 48
Growing Divergence Btwn Rural and Urban South
1980
Box 1 Folder 49
Some Planned to be Sociologists/SSSP-Boston
1981-83
Box 1 Folder 50
AG Studen-Farm Plan, Drafts RS
1978-79
Box 1 Folder 51
Sex Role-Career Ambition w/s. Brown, SSS-Knoxville
1980
Box 1 Folder 52
Factors Related to how Ag. Scientists View Advanced Biotechnologies
2001
Box 1 Folder 53
Oversupply-Underutilization SSSP
1980-83
Box 1 Folder 54
Nonacademic Employ
1981
Box 1 Folder 55
Teacher Desideratum
1979
Box 1 Folder 56
Regional Paper
1979
Box 1 Folder 57
Teacher-Attitudes/Background, RSS San Franscisco
1977-78
Box 2 Folder 1
AG. Women/Farm Plans
1979
Box 2 Folder 2
EEOC Analysis
1979-82
Box 2 Folder 3
Agricultural Service Firms
1983-85
Box 2 Folder 4
Recruitment to Farming
1981-83
Box 2 Folder 5
Symposium
1983-85
Box 2 Folder 6
OCC. Concentration
1984-1986
Box 2 Folder 7
Race & Minorities
1989-90
Box 2 Folder 8
Longitudinal Farm Plans-NLS
1981
Box 2 Folder 9
Farm Labor
1980
Box 2 Folder 10
Industrial Policy & Rural America
1983
Box 2 Folder 11
Stover/Lyson/Stover Paper
1981
Box 2 Folder 12
Economy & Society
1984-88
Box 2 Folder 13
The "Invisible Hand"
Box 2 Folder 14
Remaking the American Food System
2002-03
Box 2 Folder 15
Farming Alone
1997-98
Box 2 Folder 16
Production to Development
1999-2000
Box 2 Folder 17
Harper & Lyson-"Labor Exchange Among Dairy Farmers"
Box 2 Folder 18
Paper-Bovine & Dairy Articles
1990
Box 2 Folder 19
Community Engagement & Dairy Farm Performance
1997-99
Box 2 Folder 20
Sm. Manufacturing & Civic Welfare
1994-95
Box 2 Folder 21
Civic AG Choices
2000
Box 2 Folder 22
Sustainable Ag. in American Land Grant Universities
1996-97
Box 2 Folder 23
Agricultural Marketscape
1996-98
Box 2 Folder 24
Publications I
1984-87
Box 2 Folder 25
Publications II
2004-05
Box 2 Folder 26
Central Valley Partnership
2004
Box 2 Folder 27
DCP
1989
Box 2 Folder 28
Occ. Coding
1910-30
Box 2 Folder 29
Transformation of NY Food and Ag. System
1996-98
Box 2 Folder 30
Holy Earth & Prospectus
1996-97
Box 2 Folder 31
Global Capital & Transformation of Rural Communitites
2003
Box 2 Folder 32
Culture & Agriculture
2004
Box 2 Folder 33
Social Capital & the Civic Comm.
2003
Box 2 Folder 34
Sm. Manufacturing & Nonmetropolitan Socioeconomic Well-being
1995
Box 2 Folder 35
Tolbert-Earnings Inequality
1991-92
Box 2 Folder 36
NY-GA Vol.2
1910-30
Box 2 Folder 37
Five Cities
1986-90
Box 2 Folder 38
Lost Ground in 1980's
1990-91
Box 2 Folder 39
Lyson-FALK Chapter in Descent
Box 2 Folder 40
NZ-US Women-IICS
1981-87
Box 3 Folder 1
Policy Chapter
1989-90
Box 3 Folder 2
Soc. of Soc./Applied
1987-89
Box 3 Folder 3
Sectoral Model of Ag. Labor, IRSA, Mexico City
1980-82
Box 3 Folder 4
ASR Comment
1984-85
Box 3 Folder 5
Rural South in Crisis
Box 3 Folder 6
Branch Plants & Poverty in the American South
1983-92
Box 3 Folder 7
Atlanta Conference
1987-88
Box 3 Folder 8
TAS Paper
1987
Box 3 Folder 9
Greg Squires
1989-90
Box 3 Folder 10
Black-Sex-Role/Psych of Women Quart
1981-82
Box 3 Folder 11
SSS Panel-Social Policy
Box 3 Folder 12
SAAS Teacher Paper
1978
Box 3 Folder 13
Regional Context & Career Plans-Beegle Paper
Box 3 Folder 14
Desgregation Paper
1979
Box 3 Folder 15
Ag. & Farming Images from TV News
2003
Box 3 Folder 16
Food and Society Conference
2002
Box 3 Folder 17
"NYS Children in Poverty"/NYS Home Ec Assn. Endicott
2000
Box 3 Folder 18
Crop Rotation Patterns-NY
1993
Box 3 Folder 19
NYS Farming Structure
1986-96
Box 3 Folder 20
Changing Structure of South Carolina Ag.
Box 3 Folder 21
Problems and Issues of Rural Michigan
Box 3 Folder 22
RSS Food
1995-99
Box 3 Folder 23
Book Materials
1977
Box 3 Folder 24
Trade Rules Work Shop
2003-04
Box 3 Folder 25
Local Food Project @ Airlie
2003-04
Box 3 Folder 26
Cornell Small Farms
2002-04
Box 3 Folder 27
Babson College
1999-06
Box 3 Folder 28
PhD Shift-Share
1977-78
Box 3 Folder 29
Producer Welfare Benefits from State Ag. Bargaining Laws
2001
Box 3 Folder 30
Comm. Types & Social Indicator Rates
2006
Box 3 Folder 31
Civic Farmers
2004
Box 3 Folder 32
Qual Methods
1998-03
Box 3 Folder 33
Big Business & Comm. Welfare
1997-01
Box 3 Folder 34
"Sheepskin are for Sheep: A Prophylaxis for Spiritual Demise"
Box 3 Folder 35
Dairy Farming
1992-93
Box 3 Folder 36
AAAS-rBST
1994-95
Box 3 Folder 37
Publications
1995-98
Box 3 Folder 39
FAP
1994-97
Box 3 Folder 40
Facing the Dairy Industry
1989
Box 3 Folder 41
Book Reviews-Phoiadis/SHER
1981-92
Box 6 Folder 1
Book Manuscript on Academic Job Searches
no date
Box 6 Folder 2
History of Sociology Job Market
no date
Box 6 Folder 3
Civic Agriculture and Community Problem Solving
2005
Box 6 Folder 4
Misc. Sociology Papers and Manuscripts
1971-1972
Series II: Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 42
Correspondence & Articles
1990-97
Box 3 Folder 43
Correspondence I
1989-06
Box 4 Folder 1
Correspondence II
1976-05
Box 6 Folder 5
Michigan State University Correspondence (Grad. Student)
1972-1975
Box 6 Folder 6
Harry K. Schwarzweller Correspondence
1977-1986
Box 6 Folder 7
Job Inquiry Correspondence
1974-1977
Box 6 Folder 8
Job Inquiry Correspondence
1975-1977
Series III: Course Material
Box 4 Folder 2
Rural Sociology
1987-94
Box 4 Folder 3
Scheduling Classes
1976-77
Box 4 Folder 4
Handbook Rural Studies
1991-2001
Box 4 Folder 5
Exams I
1978-1987
Box 4 Folder 6
Exams II
1975-1985
Box 4 Folder 7
Lecture Material
1983-1986
Box 4 Folder 8
Lectures/Course Material, Spring
1989
Box 4 Folder 9
Lecture Material, DS-101
1987-2005
Box 4 Folder 10
Lectures
1986-1991
Box 4 Folder 11
Course Material, RS-101 & RS 370
Box 4 Folder 12
News Clippings, RS-101
1989-1993
Box 4 Folder 13
RS-102 Materials
1986-1988
Box 4 Folder 14
Course Material RS-102
1984-1987
Box 4 Folder 15
RS-102 Spring
1987
Box 4 Folder 16
RS-102 Extra Lectures
1986
Box 4 Folder 17
Sustainable Ag. & Dev.
Box 4 Folder 18
Handouts RS-102, Spring
1987
Box 4 Folder 19
Course Material RS-301
1980
Box 4 Folder 20
RS-301 Handouts
Box 4 Folder 21
RS-301 Fall
1986
Box 4 Folder 22
RS-359/659 Fall
1984
Box 4 Folder 23
RS-359 Materials/Handouts
1958-1998
Box 4 Folder 24
RS-370, DGM 25
2000-2003
Box 4 Folder 25
RS-370/Soc-371
2003
Box 4 Folder 26
RS-370 Fall
1992-2002
Box 4 Folder 27
DS-370
1977-2005
Box 4 Folder 28
NS-380
2004
Box 4 Folder 29
RS-560
1992-2000
Box 4 Folder 30
RS-715
1999
Box 4 Folder 31
Course Material
1966-2002
Box 4 Folder 32
Food-Ag.
Box 4 Folder 33
New Ag. Lecture Notes
Box 4 Folder 34
Intro 241-Summer
1975
Box 4 Folder 35
RS-661 & RS-666
2002-2003
Box 4 Folder 36
RSS Display-Finals and Orignal
2004
Box 4 Folder 37
Student Papers
1994
Box 4 Folder 38
Industrial Ag. and Future of Rural NY, SLide Outline
Box 4 Folder 39
Student Evaluations
1999
Box 5 Folder 1
Class Material-Misc.
1989-1999
Box 5 Folder 2
NRI, NSF
1997-1998
Box 5 Folder 3
Rural Sociology
1989-90
Box 5 Folder 5
Proposal-Rural Sociology
1989
Box 5 Folder 6
Grants/Proposals I
1990-1992
Box 5 Folder 7
Grants/Proposals II
1993-1995
Box 5 Folder 8
Grants/Proposals III
1996
Box 5 Folder 9
Grants/Proposals IV
1997
Box 5 Folder 10
Grants/Proposals V
1998
Box 5 Folder 11
Grants/Proposals VI
1999-2001
Box 5 Folder 12
Grants/Proposals VII
2002-2003
Box 5 Folder 13
Grants/Proposals VIII
2004
Box 5 Folder 14
Grants/Proposals IX
1996-2004
Series IV: Miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 15
Project: Organizational & Structural Changes in the Dairy Industry
1990-1995
Box 5 Folder 16
NE Training & Support Network for Agricultural Development
1998-2001
Box 5 Folder 17
Eco Village Info
2000
Box 5 Folder 18
New Zealand Dairy Industry
1987
Box 5 Folder 19
NRSC-Final Report
1997
Box 5 Folder 20
Migrant
1995-1996
Box 5 Folder 21
Dairy (Regional)
1996
Box 5 Folder 22
Kiwi Fruit-Chas. Meeting, November 7th
1985
Box 5 Folder 23
Plums-D
1982-1987
Box 5 Folder 24
1900 Census
1988
Box 5 Folder 25
Integrative Graduate Education & Research Traineeship
2000
Box 5 Folder 26
Potato Growers Study
1990
Box 5 Folder 27
New Zealand
1984-1993
Box 5 Folder 28
Dairy
1980-1997
Box 5 Folder 29
Bangkok
1983-1986
Box 5 Folder 30
Survey-Apple Growers, NYS & Michigan
2002-03
Box 5 Folder 31
FISH
1999
Box 5 Folder 4
Miscellaneous
1985-02
Box 6 Folder 9
Lyson Academic Personel Evaluation - Clemson U.
1977-1982
Box 6 Folder 10
Lyson's Comprehensive Exam
1974
Box 6 Folder 11
Michigan State work
no date
Box 6 Folder 12
Dissertation Proposal: Reginal Context, Structural Determinants and Social Inequalities in the Educational Tracking of Rural Youth
1975
Box 6 Folder 13
Miscellaneous West Virgina University Class Work
1968-1975