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Bell, Shannon Elizabeth; York, Richard – Rural Sociology, 2010
Economic changes and the machinations of the treadmill of production have dramatically reduced the number of jobs provided by extractive industries, such as mining and timber, in the United States and other affluent nations in the post-World War II era. As the importance of these industries to national, regional, and local economies wanes,…
Descriptors: Fuels, Ideology, Content Analysis, Industrialization
Stout-Wiegand, Nancy; And Others – 1981
The major objective of this pilot survey was to pretest questions for use in the development and design of a larger, more definitive survey of residents of rural communities in Appalachia, planned for the spring of 1981, and to obtain preliminary descriptive data about the area's residents. Telephone interviews covered respondents' family…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Satisfaction, Community Surveys