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2. The fruit of difference : the rural-urban continuum as a system of identity
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bell, Michael M. (author / Department of Sociology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT) and Department of Sociology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06477
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (1) : 65-82
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Today sociologists tend to doubt the rural-urban continuum, the idea that community is more characteristic of country places than cities. Based on an ethnographic study of an English exurban village, I argue that the continuum remains an important source of identity for country residents, one from which they derive social-psychological and material benefits. They root this conception of themselves as country people in nature, making this identity a particularly secure one. These real social consequences suggest that sociology should no longer doubt the reality of the rural-urban continuum, at least at the level of the definition of the situation. It, therefore, should remain an important topic of sociological study. (original)
3. The social impacts of information technologies in rural North America
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dillman, Don A. (author / Department of Rural Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07255
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 50 (1) : 1-26
- Notes:
- Gerry Walter
4. The social networks of leaders in more and less viable rural communities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brown, Raplh B. (author), Hassinger, Edward W. (author), O'Brien, David J. (author), Pinkerton, James R. (author), and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06475
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 (4) : 699-716
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, The relationship between the social networks of leaders and community viability is examined in a comparative study of leaders (N=75) in five rural communities (population range 1,000 to 2,500). The analysis looks at leaders' connections to organizations outside of their communities and at different kinds of linkages between leaders within their respective communities. Leaders in more and less viable communities do not differ much in characteristics such as age, education, and occupations, but the presence of women in leadership position is associated with community viability. In addition, there is some support for the expectation that leaders in more viable communities are more likely to have formal linkages to statewide and national networks. The most important finding, however, is that the way in which leaders relate to each other in instrumental tasks within their respective communities is associated with community viability. (original)