Rural Communities : Legacy + Change / by Cornelia Butler Flora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flora, Cornelia Butler, author.

Contributor:

Flora, Jan L., 1941-

Gasteyer, Stephen P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Rural.

United States--Rural conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; 1 - Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape; PART TWO: COMPONENTS OF RURAL COMMUNITIES: THE COMMUNITY CAPITALS; 2 - Natural Capital; 3 - Cultural Capital; 4 - Human Capital; 5 - Social Capital and Community; 6 - Political Capital; 7 - Financial Capital; 8 - Built Capital; PART THREE: COMMUNITY CAPITALS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD; 9 - The Global Economy; 10 - Consumption in Rural America; 11 - Governance; 12 - Generating Community Change; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-97432-9

0-429-96324-6

0-429-49469-6

0-8133-4992-3

9780429494697

OCLC:

919201395