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"Ambitious in both scope and content.... will have the most effect among applied sociologists and those with strong local economic development policy interests. There is plenty of material in the book that sociologists can use to help community development groups understand their local situations more completely." -- Contemporary Sociology
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"Ambitious in both scope and content.... will have the most effect among applied sociologists and those with strong local economic development policy interests. There is plenty of material in the book that sociologists can use to help community development groups understand their local situations more completely." -- Contemporary Sociology
"Does much to further our understanding of the role communities play in a rapidly changing global system.... fine scholarly work.... an excellent text." -- Rural Sociology
"Truly an exciting publication. Here is the first book in several decades that treats rural communities in a coherent, thorough, and theoretically informed manner. It is superbly readable and relevant for undergraduate courses on community analysis." -- Gene F. Summers, University of Wisconsin
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"This book paints an illuminating picture of the complexity that is rural America today. A highly readable examination of the issues, this book sets a new standard for a publication that is both narratively approachable and theoretically rigorous."
-Karl N. Stauber, president of the Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota, and former Under Secretary, USDA
-Karl N. Stauber, president of the Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota, and former Under Secretary, USDA
"This is an exciting, practical, well-researched, and usable framework for making a difference in rural communities. Highly recommended to anyone interested in understanding how rural communitites function and in being part of positive community development in rural America."
-Dick Senese, Associate Dean, Community Development & Vitality, University of Minnesota Extension Service
-Dick Senese, Associate Dean, Community Development & Vitality, University of Minnesota Extension Service
"This long-awaited update incorporates conceptual developments of the past decade. The focus remains on the unique character of rural America, but the authors make it clear that rural can only be understood in light of urban, national, and global phenomena. By the same token, students and other scholars interested primarily in urban phenomena will find much of interest in Rural Communitites."
-Connor Bailey, Auburn University
-Connor Bailey, Auburn University
"This is a very readable book which both students and more advanced readers will appreciate. The authors present their material in a clear and systematic way. … It will be of particular value to rural social workers and community practitioners who will benefit from its broad conceptual framework and extensive discussion of issues and challenges facing rural communities today."
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event analysis technique, entrepreneurial social infrastructure, technical assistance approach, local growth machine, dominant cultural capital, bonding social capital, bridging social capital, lateral learning, technical assistance model, built capital, rival consumption, financial capital investment, inclusive access, rural governments, community theorists, rural linkages, joint consumption, ethanol plant, rural banks, primary labor market Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Los Angeles, Native Americans, New Haven, World War, Owens Valley, African American, Blue Mound, West Virginia, Farm Bill, Mammoth Lakes, European Americans, Great Plains, Yale University, Main Street, Mono Lake, Generating Community Change, Bureau of the Census, Civil War, Environmental Protection Agency, New England, New Richland, North Carolina, Rio Grande New!
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event analysis technique, entrepreneurial social infrastructure, technical assistance approach, local growth machine, dominant cultural capital, bonding social capital, bridging social capital, lateral learning, technical assistance model, built capital, rival consumption, financial capital investment, inclusive access, rural governments, community theorists, rural linkages, joint consumption, ethanol plant, rural banks, primary labor market Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Los Angeles, Native Americans, New Haven, World War, Owens Valley, African American, Blue Mound, West Virginia, Farm Bill, Mammoth Lakes, European Americans, Great Plains, Yale University, Main Street, Mono Lake, Generating Community Change, Bureau of the Census, Civil War, Environmental Protection Agency, New England, New Richland, North Carolina, Rio Grande New!
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- Social Capital (Key Ideas) by John Field on page 59, page 60, and page 76
- Who Rules America? by G.William Domhoff on page 116, page 117, and page 137
- Rural Planning and Development in the United States by Mark B. Lapping on page 162, page 321, and page 351
- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills on page 117, and page 138
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim on page 58, and page 75
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- Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History (New Directions in Southern History) by Melissa Walker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small-Town America by Yvonne Vissing in Back Matter
- Lake Tourism: An Integrated Approach to Lacustrine Tourism Systems (Aspects of Tourism) by C. Michael Hall on page 180
- The Social Risks of Agriculture: Americans Speak Out on Food, Farming, and the Environment by Ronald C. Wimberley in Back Matter
- Communities Of Work: Rural Restructuring In Local & Global Contexts (Research in International Studies. Global and Comparative Studies Series, No. 2) by William W. Falk on page 314
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