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List of Figures
List of Abbreviations of Common Citations
Preface
Assaying the Problem
Introduction	p. 3
Current Controversies in U.S. Agriculture	p. 4
How Hard Is It to Build a Bridge?	p. 9
What Description Might Do: Description as an Antidote to Presumption	p. 15
Sources of Polarization: Facts vs Values	p. 19
The Temptations of Facts-Values	p. 20
Strident Combatants	p. 22
Normative Oversimplification	p. 25
Epistemic Oversimplification	p. 28
Responsibilities of Scientists and Advocates	p. 33
Sources of Incomprehension: The Clash of Contexts	p. 37
The Debate over the Family Farm	p. 39
What Interpretation Can Do	p. 47
From Values to Ideologies	p. 53
Competing Rationalities	p. 54
The Liabilities of Values Talk	p. 58
Why "Ideology"?	p. 59
The Liabilities of Ideology Talk	p. 63
How to Work with Ideology	p. 69
Why Not to Ask Why: Explaining or Understanding?	p. 69
The Search for Meaning: Ideologies as Symbolic Networks	p. 72
Mediatory Description as Practical Politics	p. 77
Describing the Differences
Comparing Ideologies	p. 83
Classifying Ideologies	p. 83
Exemplary Authors and Works	p. 92
How to Compare	p. 97
Agriculture and Human Nature	p. 103
Berry	p. 104
Walters	p. 112
Battelle	p. 120
Nature	p. 129
What Nature Might Be	p. 129
Walters	p. 132
Battelle	p. 138
Berry	p. 143
Knowledge	p. 151
Berry	p. 151
Walters	p. 159
Battelle	p. 167
Social Order	p. 179
Berry	p. 180
Walters	p. 188
Battelle	p. 194
Praxis	p. 205
Berry	p. 206
Walters	p. 212
Battelle	p. 219
Getting Closer to the Action
Ideologies in the Legislature: A Guide to Hearing Hearings	p. 233
"A Minor Bill Freighted with Controversy": The Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments, 1979, 1980	p. 234
Substantive Differences	p. 241
Managing the Risks of Genetic Vulnerability	p. 247
What Shall Be Done? What Can Be Done?	p. 250
Research Agendas as Social Action	p. 255
What Is Agricultural Research?	p. 256
Three Research Agendas	p. 262
Agendas as Ideologies: Keeping Up with Reality	p. 266
Research, Power, and Democracy	p. 270
Conclusion	p. 279
Select Bibliography	p. 287
Index	p. 311
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