摘要：This paper is about the founding and the first 12 years of publication of the journal Rural Sociology. In the introduction, the author examines the social context in the 1960s when the journal was founded. In the second part he points to some crucial rural-sociological research from the 1960s and the 1970s carried out by research associates of the Department (Centre) of rural sociology. The results of the research showed that rural population opposed the socialist project of collective farming and common ownership. It was therefore necessary to change that model gradually and direct it towards competent and productive individual agricultural households as leaders of modern agriculture and village. The author also refers to the changes in the Editorial Board, institutional framework of the journal, its content and remarkable foreign contributors whose work it published. Key topics and articles which marked the first twelve years of Rural Sociology are singled out. In the conclusion, the author agrees with the common view that Rural Sociology in those years greatly contributed to a better understanding of social processes in the village and the foundation and development of rural sociology in these parts.
关键词：Rural Sociology; foundation and the social context; rural sociology research; Editorial Board; foreign contributors; principal topics; remarkable articles
