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Erickson, Lance D.; Call, Vaughn R. A.; Brown, Ralph B. – Rural Sociology, 2012
As rural communities undergo substantial demographic and economic changes, understanding the migration intentions and their antecedents of rural elderly persons becomes increasingly important. Using data drawn from a survey of adults from 24 rural Utah communities conducted in 2008, we examine whether rural residents 60 years of age or older plan…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Structural Equation Models, Community Attitudes, Rural Areas
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Van Gundy, Karen T.; Stracuzzi, Nena F.; Rebellon, Cesar J.; Tucker, Corinna Jenkins; Cohn, Ellen S. – Rural Sociology, 2011
Using survey data from two youth samples, one rural and one urban, we examine the role and significance of perceived community cohesion in the stress process. In particular, we assess the extent to which community attachment and detachment are related to depressed mood, problem substance use, and delinquency net of social statuses, stress…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Delinquency, Urban Youth, Depression (Psychology)
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Sundblad, Daniel R.; Sapp, Stephen G. – Rural Sociology, 2011
We examined the community field perspective as a complement to the linear-development and systemic models of community attachment, wherein community attachment is defined as a social bond to the community of place. We empirically evaluated indicators of the actor's interaction within the social field, such as the perceived quality of neighboring…
Descriptors: Community Development, Persistence, Social Indicators, Friendship
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Ghimire, Dirgha J.; Axinn, William G. – Rural Sociology, 2010
This article examines the influence of community context and land use on the monthly odds of first birth in a society in the midst of dramatic fertility transition. The theoretical framework guiding our work predicts that proximity to nonfamily services should delay first births by creating opportunities for competing nonfamily activities and…
Descriptors: Family Life, Land Use, Community Characteristics, Birth
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Edwards, Mark Evan; Torgerson, Melissa; Sattem, Jennifer – Rural Sociology, 2009
Economic and demographic changes in rural areas continue to introduce big-city problems in small towns. These communities' ability and willingness to respond are likely to be influenced by the geography, culture, and array of organizations in rural places. But how these characteristics of rural places shape local response is hard to predict and as…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Social Problems, Sexual Abuse
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Besser, Terry L.; Recker, Nicholas; Agnitsch, Kerry – Rural Sociology, 2008
Economic shocks are sudden events causing a significant impact on the local economy. Disaster community literature predicts that community outcomes from shocks will depend on the kind of shock. Consensus crisis shocks will be followed by increases in social capital and quality of life. Corrosive community shocks will result in declines in these…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Quality of Life, Social Capital
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Cook, Christine C.; Crull, Sue R.; Bruin, Marilyn J.; Yust, Becky L.; Shelley, Mack C.; Laux, Sharon; Memken, Jean; Niemeyer, Shirley; White, B. J. – Rural Sociology, 2009
The purpose of this research was to explore and explain the role housing plays in rural community vitality. Community vitality refers to economic strength and social well-being. In spring 2002 we collected primary interview data from informants in 134 small rural communities in nine north-central states and identified related secondary data from…
Descriptors: Population Trends, Housing, Rural Areas, Community Characteristics
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McConnell, Eileen Diaz; Miraftab, Faranak – Rural Sociology, 2009
For more than a century, communities across the United States legally employed strategies to create and maintain racial divides. One particularly widespread and effective practice was that of "sundown towns," which signaled to African Americans and others that they were not welcome within the city limits after dark. Though nearly 1,000…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns
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Farmer, Frank L.; Moon, Zola K. – Rural Sociology, 2009
This research examines differences between those Mexican migrants choosing metropolitan destinations and those choosing destinations outside metropolitan areas of the United States. Using general estimating equations, the study presents data indicating that since the 1960s migrants choosing rural destinations are less fluent in English, slightly…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Rural Areas, Metropolitan Areas
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Lyson, Thomas A.; Guptill, Amy – Rural Sociology, 2004
Commodity agriculture and civic agriculture represent two distinct types of farming found in the U.S. today. Commodity agriculture is grounded on the belief that the primary objectives of farming should be to produce as much food/fiber as possible for the least cost. It is driven by the twin goals of productivity and efficiency. Civic…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Agriculture, Food, Agricultural Production
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Frank, Russell – Rural Sociology, 2003
An examination of big-city newspaper coverage of violent crimes in small towns during a recent five-year period reveals a remarkable degree of uniformity in the language reporters use to characterize life in these places. The cliches signal an underlying set of stereotypes of small-town life: They are safe, close-knit communities where bad things…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Crime, News Reporting, Newspapers
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Farmer, Frank L.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1989
Shifts the focus of poverty theory from individual characteristics to a more structural, community level. Defines and tests a measurement model of a structural conceptualization of poverty by applying confirmatory factor analysis to data on 5 poverty indicators from 881 nonadjacent nonmetropolitan counties. Contains 69 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Economic Factors, Models, Poverty
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Winkler, Richelle; Field, Donald R.; Luloff, A. E.; Krannich, Richard S.; Williams, Tracy – Rural Sociology, 2007
Rural communities have experienced dramatic demographic, social, and economic transformations over the past 30 years. Historically characterized by close links between natural resources and social, cultural, and economic structures, few of today's rural communities remain heavily dependent upon traditional extractive industries like ranching,…
Descriptors: Population Growth, Factor Analysis, Rural Areas, Natural Resources
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Wilkinson, Kenneth P. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Offers theses to encourage search for community in the changing countryside: because of its influence on social well-being, the community is alive; rural areas present special community development advantages/problems; strategies must address sources of rural problems in larger society; rural sociology can specify/measure parameters of rural…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Problems
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England, J. Lynn; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1979
Historically rural society has been viewed as being characterized by a concensus on a set of values unique to rural life. Data gathered from random samples of 15 communities in the intermountain West suggests, in general, that rurality and social stratification need to be integrated into a theory of values. (BR)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Industrialization, Maturation, Measurement Techniques
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