Abstract
The article seeks to initiate a debate on what part rural research plays in making real rural worlds. It does so through a review of the development of rural sociology. What started as a formal discipline in the United States in the early 20th century spread from there as part of the establishment of the post-war transatlantic liberal order. In the specific conditions of post-war Europe, that stimulated an organised response – a European rural sociology – to emulate and challenge the American approach to the study and regulation of rural problems. This selective review of the history of rural sociology poses the question: what are its creativity claims; and ponders more generally the basis of the creativity claims of the engaged sciences.
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