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Beran, Janice A. – 1983
During the early decades of this century in rural Iowa, basketball for girls served to bring excitement and diversion in an otherwise bleak environment. It provided a chance for the girls to travel, occasionally to large cities. Playing basketball enhanced the girls' relationships with school peers and teachers and served to bring recognition and…
Descriptors: Basketball, Community Attitudes, Community Support, High Schools
Peer reviewedGoudy, Willis J. – Rural Sociology, 1990
Reviews two models of community-attachment, linear-development and systematic models, using data on social ties and local sentiments from survey respondents in Iowa communities. Linear-development variables (population size and density) relate weakly to community attachment. Systematic variables (residence length, income, and age) relate more…
Descriptors: Age, Attachment Behavior, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics
Fink, Deborah; Schwieder, Dorothy – 1984
Both economically and socially, Iowa farm women played important roles in supporting and maintaining the rural population during the 1930s. They continued their patterns of production for consumption and for income, and during the Depression this production constituted a larger and more significant part of the household economy. Women kept large…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Clubs, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
