Rural Communities
Legacy + Change
Avalon Publishing · Print & ebook · August 4, 2015
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.
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- Who it’s for
- The Community Capitals framework connects rural case studies with sociological concepts and contemporary challenges.
- Genres
- Rural Life, Regional Studies, Human Geography
- Published
- Avalon Publishing, August 4, 2015
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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?
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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.
Community Capitals
The Community Capitals framework connects rural case studies with sociological concepts and contemporary challenges.
Come here for
- Chapter-opening case studies introduce communities facing particular challenges.
- The Community Capitals framework examines how rural communities use varied resources.
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- Health and health care receive expanded coverage.
- Food systems and alternatives receive expanded coverage.
Where it sits
| Rural Life | 100% |
|---|---|
| Human Geography | 35% |
| Regional Studies | 28% |
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Publisher categories
- Rural Life
- Authors
- Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Stephen P. Gasteyer
- Publisher
- Avalon Publishing
- Published
- August 4, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Rural Life