Persistence and change in rural communities : a 50-year follow-up to six classic studies /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Sociology, Rural > United States.; Social change > United States.; Policy and Planning.; Aid, (New March 2000); Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Rural Sociology, (New March 2000); Rural Development, (New March 2000); Development policy.; Economic situation.; Rural areas.; Rural communities.; Rural development.; Rural economy.; Rural sociology.; Social participation.; Social structure.; Socioeconomics.; Structural change.; United States > Case studies. > Rural conditions; Electronic books.
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A reexamination of the six rural community study areas in the USA is presented to document some of the diverse patterns of social organization and change that have characterized US rural communities over the 50 years following the original study effort. It also discusses the community characteristic...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / A.E. Luloff and R.S. Krannich
• Community Change and Community Theory / J.C. Bridger, A.E. Luloff and R.S. Krannich
• Sublette, Kansas : Persistence and Change in Haskell County / L. Bloomquist, D. Williams and J.C. Bridger
• Irwin, Iowa : Persistence and Change in Shelby County / E.O. Hoiberg
• Community Change in Harmony, Georgia, 1943-1993 / G.P. Green
• Community Change and Persistence : Landaff, New Hampshire / F. Schmidt, E. Skinner, L.A. Ploch and R.S. Krannich
• Community and Social Well-being in Contemporary El Cerrito / R.S. Krannich and C. Eastman
• The Old Order Amish Community 50 Years Later / A.E. Luloff, J.C. Bridger and L.A. Ploch
• A 50-year Perspective on Persistence and Change: Lessons from the Rural Studies Communities / R.S. Krannich and A.E. Luloff.