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Rural Sociology: The Strategy of Change

by J. Allan Beegle, Charles P. Loomis

Pages: 494

Contributors: J. Allan Beegle,Charles P. Loomis

Publisher: Prentice-Hall

Place of Publication: Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Publication Year: 1957

Subjects: Sociology, Rural,United States--Rural Conditions

Table of Contents

Title Page

Foreword

Preface

Table of Contents

1: Social Systems and Social Change

Selected References

2: Locality Systems

Selected References

3: Family and Kinship Systems

Selected References

4: Informal Social Systems

Selected References

5: Regional Social Systems

Selected References

6: Hierarchical Social Systems

Selected References

7: Religious Social Systems

Selected References

8: Educational Social Systems

Selected References

9: Governmental Social Systems

Selected References

10: Farmers' Organizations as Social Systems

Selected References

11: Social Systems in Health

Selected References

12: Federal Agency Systems

Selected References

13: Library and Mass Media Systems

Selected References

14: Direction and Strategy of Change

Selected References

Glossary

Index

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