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Rural Communities - Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Stephen P. Gasteyer

Rural Communities

Legacy + Change
Buch | Softcover
504 Seiten
2015 | 5th edition
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-4971-8 (ISBN)
CHF 95,95 inkl. MwSt
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This book examines how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals to address the modern challenges that face them. Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case.
Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals (natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built) to address the modern challenges that face them.

Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case. This narrative, topical approach makes the book accessible and engaging for undergraduate students, while its integrative approach provides them with a framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts and explanations of social science.

This fifth edition is updated throughout with 2013 census data and features new and expanded coverage of health and health care, food systems and alternatives, the effects of neoliberalism and globalization on rural communities, as well as an expanded resource and activity section at the end of each chapter.

Cornelia Butler Flora is Charles F. Curtis Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Agriculture and Life Sciences at at Iowa State University.Jan L. Flora is professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University.Stephen P. Gasteyer is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University.

Preface -- Introduction -- Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape -- Components of Rural Communities: The Community Capitals -- Natural Capital -- Cultural Capital -- Human Capital -- Social Capital and Community -- Political Capital -- Financial Capital -- Built Capital -- Community Capitals and Community Development in a Changing World -- The Global Economy -- Consumption in Rural America -- Governance -- Generating Community Change

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.8.2015
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8133-4971-0 / 0813349710
ISBN-13 978-0-8133-4971-8 / 9780813349718
Zustand Neuware
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