Rural Communities : Legacy + Change Paperback - 2015
by Flora, Cornelia Butler, Flora, Jan L., Gasteyer, Stephen P
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- Title Rural Communities : Legacy + Change
- Author Flora, Cornelia Butler, Flora, Jan L., Gasteyer, Stephen P
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Fifth
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 504
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2015-08-04
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 39162370-6
- ISBN 9780813349718 / 0813349710
- Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.02 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.59 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Rural conditions, Sociology, Rural
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015006916
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.72
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
Liza Kuecker, Western New Mexico University
Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. "Rural Communities: Legacy + Change," uses a unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America s diverse rural communities use various capitalsnatural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and builtto address the modern challenges facing them.
Each chapter in the text opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of the sociological concepts to be applied in understanding the case. This narrative, topical approach makes the text accessible and engaging for undergraduate students, while its integrative approach provides them with a clear framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts and explanations of social science.
The fifth edition is updated throughout with 2014 census data and features new coverage of health and health care, the effects of income inequality and consumption on rural communities, as well as an expanded resource section at the end of each chapter.
Cornelia Butler Flora is Charles F. Curtis Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University and Research Professor at Kansas State University.
Jan L. Flora is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University and Research Professor at Kansas State University.
Stephen P. Gasteyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University.
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