Extension Flashcards
Define diffusion
The social theory about how information moves through society (change)
Define Diffusion of innovation
The how information is moved through a group based on their innovativeness (time it takes them to adopt)
Define inovvativness
Relative term based on how early an individual adopts an innovation.
What are the 5 catagories of innovativness
Inovators (2.5%) Early adopters (13.5%) Early Majority (34%) Late Majority (34%) Laggers (16%)
What is wrong with the Diffusion theory in terms of ToT modle?
- doesn’t take into account NON ADOPTION
- thinks all problems are the same
- All problems have solutions
- adoption is rational (non adoption is irrational)
- Science is right
- Doesn’t allow for the individual process
- Not Complex
What is Adoption?
Adoption is a rational individual process a person takes to get to a decision to adopt or reject an innovation
What are the steps to adoption?
Awareness Intrest Evaluation Trial Choice
Example of Private Sector Risk
and Failure
They take all the financial risk-Have to remain profitable or they could risk failure
Example is Murray Goulburn went broke and then there are implications that go on from that concerning Social Welfare -mental health.
How did ToT use innovativness with their extension?
What were the implications?
They based their extension at only the inovators as they WOULD adopt and then let the information diffuse from their.
However this doesnt take into account the time it takes for information to move or non-adopters
This also lead to innovators being the basis of research creating bias on what is being changed
SMRCE
Communication model Source Message Receiver Channel Effect (FEEDBACK)
Identify how you come across
What attitudes are in the room
how you connect
What your purpose of the talk is
Types of interations
Person to person
Person to group
Small group
Mass Media
Example of the use of the diffusion theory
Hybrid Corn in the USA during the 1920’s
Targeted the INNOVATORS of the region and then watched the adoption occur to neighbouring people OVER TIME
1940’s
Why was adoption first used?
During the 1840s after the Potatoe famine in Ireland lead to science trying to be incorporated into agriculture
Describe Government application in extension
Free services
unbiased
available to all
Describe the Private sector envolvment in Extension
Advice linked to product/service
Focus on profit (for both farmer and themsleves)
Only show Benifits no all features
Difference between public and private good
Public Good is not provide by the market its a role of the government
non exculsive
Private good is about the individual benefit and is subject to rivalry and exclusion
They also have HIGH RISK associated with the private business