Rural Communities
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Author | : Cornelia Butler Flora |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2018-03-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429974329 |
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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 (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.
Author | : Sonja Ardoin |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2017-12-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1498536875 |
Download College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
College Aspirations and Access in Working Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter explores how a working class, rural environment influences rural students’ opportunities to pursue higher education and engage in the college choice process. Based on a case study with accounts from rural high school students and counselors, this book examines how these communities perceive higher education and what challenges arise for both rural students and counselors. The book addresses how college knowledge and university jargon illustrate the gap between rural cultural capital and higher education cultural capital. Insights about approaches to reduce barriers created by college knowledge and university jargon are shared and strategies for offering rural students pathways to learn academic language and navigate higher education are presented for both secondary and higher education institutions.
Author | : David L. Brown |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745641288 |
Download Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic and environmental roles at a time in which societies are rapidly urbanizing, and the identities of local places are increasingly subsumed by flows of people, information and economic activity across global spaces. However, while the organization of rural life has been fundamentally transformed by institutional and social changes that have occurred since the mid-twentieth century, rural people and communities have proved resilient in the face of these transformations. This book examines the causes and consequences of major social and economic changes affecting rural communities and populations during the first decades of the twenty-first century, and explores policies developed to ameliorate problems or enhance opportunities. Primarily focused on the U.S. context, while also providing international comparative discussion, the book is organized into five sections each of which explores both socio-demographic and political economic aspects of rural transformation. It features an accessible and up-to-date blend of theory and empirical analysis, with each chapter's discussion grounded in real-life situations through the use of empirical case-study materials. Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in rural sociology, community sociology, rural and/or population geography, community development, and population studies.
Author | : Robert Petrone |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2021-04-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1475849184 |
Download Teaching English in Rural Communities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Showcasing the voices, perspectives, and experiences of rural English teachers and students, Teaching English in Rural Communities promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity within rural education. Specifically, this book develops a Critical Rural English Pedagogy (CREP), which draws attention to issues of power, representation, and justice related to rurality. Based on the assumption that “rurality” is a social construct, CREP critiques deficit-laden stereotypes and renderings of rural places and people that circulate in media, popular discourse, and even education at times. In doing so, CREP opens up possibilities for educators and students to use the English classroom as a space to better understand the complex issues they face as rural people and ways to promote more nuanced and comprehensive representations of rurality. In particular, this book highlights English rural classrooms whereby students examine representations of rurality in literary and media texts; decenter dominant settler-colonist narratives of rural spaces, places, and people; develop understandings of Indigenous perspectives and cultural practices, particularly related to land stewardship; and engage in local outreach to promote inclusivity within rural communities. This book also gives special attention to ways race and racism may factor into literacy education in rural contexts and possibilities for rural educators to attend to these issues.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2018-10-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309469058 |
Download Achieving Rural Health Equity and Well-Being Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain less than 20 percent of the U.S. population. The relative sparseness of the population in rural areas is one of many factors that influence the health and well-being of rural Americans. Rural areas have histories, economies, and cultures that differ from those of cities and from one rural area to another. Understanding these differences is critical to taking steps to improve health and well-being in rural areas and to reduce health disparities among rural populations. To explore the impacts of economic, demographic, and social issues in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing the associated challenges, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on June 13, 2017. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Author | : Richard C. Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-05-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781788531665 |
Download Rural Community Water Supply Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Richard Carter weaves together the myriad of factors that need to come together to make rural water supply truly available to everyone. He concludes that ultimately, systemic change to the global web of injustice that divides this world into rich and poor may be the only way to address the underlying problem.
Author | : Fotini Kondyli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108845495 |
Download Rural Communities in Late Byzantium Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.
Author | : A.E. Luloff |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2019-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429713444 |
Download American Rural Communities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is dedicated to the people of rural America whose struggle to make community meaningful provides important lessons. It includes the contributors' prescription for the 1990s that calls for a renewal of action, development, and leadership on the part of local citizens and civic leaders.
Author | : Kristin Sterling |
Publisher | : Lerner Publications |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0822585995 |
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Simple text and color photographs describe life in the country. Includes rural facts and a glossary.
Author | : Istudor Nicolae |
Publisher | : Nova Science Publishers |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781536102550 |
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This book fills a gap between theory and practice in the field of the rural communities' research. The book consists of fourteen chapters which analyze specific aspects and suggest possible solutions regarding rural communities in the global economy, insisting on the recent transformations of the classical rural economy paradigms in contemporary economies. The main topics of the book are centered but not limited to the following aspects: -Recent transformations of the rural communities -Rural paradigm agricultural and food models -Rural sustainable investments -Consumption models -Business investments strategies in rural areas -Transition economics and market reforms in rural economy -Market inequity and rural economy -Business models and start-ups in rural areas. This book tries to provide insights and support for policy makers, investors, researchers - all of this connecting to the rural communities in the global economy. In this context, the objective of the book is to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of green rural communities in the global economy and their impact on sustainable development of competitive markets. The main objectives of the book are: -to create a reference for professionals, practitioners, academia and students in field of the rural economy paradigms; -to present and analyze the latest findings in the field of the recent transformations of the rural communities -the paradigms change of rural communities in the global economy; -to create a working paradigm regarding the rural economy The book, Rural Communities in the Global Economy - Beyond The Classical Rural Economy Paradigms will definitely impact editors' fields of research, since it is mainly related to the rural communities in the global economy and the sustainable development of the rural economy through a range of activities, including green entrepreneurship and the "working with people" model. The publication is also a continuation of editors' research of the rural communities in the global economy taking into account the structures in modern business and society. Convinced of its utility, the editors are confident that Rural Communities in the Global Economy - Beyond the Classical Rural Economy Paradigms will become a milestone in the field and will stir debates regarding this research topic. This book is addressed to professionals and researchers working in the field of rural communities' economy research and management.