Guide to the Thomas Lyson Papers,
1980-2007.

Collection Number: 21-33-3600

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
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Compiled by:
Anne Eller
Date completed:
July 2007
EAD encoding:
Anne Eller, July 2007
Date modified:
RMC Staff, October 2011

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Thomas Lyson Papers, 1980-2007.
Collection Number:
21-33-3600
Creator:
Thomas A. Lyson
Quantity:
5.4 cubic feet.
Forms of Material:
Publications, Research Materials, Correspondence
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, course material, and publications concerning Lyson's work.
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.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Lyson, Thomas A.
Cornell University--Faculty.
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.Dept. of Development Sociology.

Subjects:
Agriculture--Social Aspects--United States.
Agriculture--Economic Aspects--United States.
Farms--United States.
Rural Development--United States.
Land use, Rural--United States.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Thomas Lyson Papers, #21/33/3600. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

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