| Rural Communities: Legacy + Change Contributor(s): Flora, Cornelia Butler (Author), Flora, Jan (Author), Gasteyer, Stephen P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813351294 ISBN-13: 9780813351292 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2026 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of January 5, 2026 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Rural |
| Physical Information: 496 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
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| Publisher Description: 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 scienceThis 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. |