NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Type
Information Analyses1
Journal Articles1
Reports - Evaluative1
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing one result Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Young, Frank W. – Rural Sociology, 1996
A 1958 New York community study dramatized the thesis that macro forces (urbanization, industrialization, bureaucratization) have undermined all small communities' autonomy. Such "oppositional case studies" succeed when they render the dominant view immediately obsolete, have plausible origins, are testable, and generate new research.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Bureaucracy, Case Studies, Community Control