Persistence and Change in Rural Communities : a Fifty Year Follow-up to Six Classic Studies.

In the 1930s and 1940s the US Department of Agriculture undertook detailed studies of 6 US rural communities representing various patterns of social and economic change that were affecting rural America. These studies became classics in the literature on rural communities, and have helped to develop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luloff, A. E.
Otros Autores: Krannich, R. S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford : CAB International, 2002.
Temas:
Sociology, Rural > United States.
Social change > United States.
Sociologie rurale > États-Unis.
Rural conditions
Social change
Sociology, Rural
United States > Rural conditions > Case studies.
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Community Change and Community Theory; 3 Sublette, Kansas: Persistence and Change in Haskell County; 4 Irwin, Iowa: Persistence and Change in Shelby County; 5 Community Change in Harmony, Georgia, 1943-1993; 6 Community Change and Persistence: Landaff, New Hampshire; 7 Community and Social Well-being in Contemporary El Cerrito; 8 The Old Order Amish Community 50 Years Later; 9 A 50-year Perspective on Persistence and Change: Lessons from the Rural Studies Communities; References; Index.

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