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    Diffusion Research in Rural Sociology: The Record and Prospects for the Future » Read Now

    by Frederick C. Fliegel. 138 pgs.

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    Fliegel overviews and summarizes research on the spread of innovations through rural populations. The volume begins with a look at the discovery of diffusion as a patterned process in the 1940s and examines the creation of the classical model to explain diffusion as a transfer of information...
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    Changing Rural Social Systems: Adaptation and Survival » Read Now

    by Nan E. Johnson, Ching-li Wang. 258 pgs.

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    Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers...
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    Rural Communities: Legacy & Change » Read Now

    by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Jacqueline D. Spears, Louis E. Swanson. 334 pgs.

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    The Community in Rural America » Read Now

    by Kenneth P. Wilkinson. 150 pgs.

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    This study examines the critical state of rural life in America, its causes and possible cure. First reviewing existing research and theories on the subject, Wilkinson identifies characteristic rural conditions that block community development and the enhancement of economic, social, and educational...
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    Rural Data, People, and Policy: Information Systems for the 21st Century » Read Now

    by James A. Christenson, Richard C. Maurer, Nancy L. Strang. 248 pgs.

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    Rural Policies for the 1990s » Read Now

    by Cornelia B. Flora, James A. Christenson. 376 pgs.

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    The Sociology of Agriculture (Includes discussion of rural sociology in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Frederick H. Buttel, Olaf F. Larson, Gilbert W. Gillespie Jr. 292 pgs.

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    Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rural Sociological Society, this monograph analyzes the nearly 90 years of rural sociological research on agriculture. The authors' aim throughout is to convey both continuities and discontinuities in theory, method, and approach that have...
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    A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society (Chap. Eight "Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy") » Read Now

    by Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, Henry A. Walker. 348 pgs.

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    Leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity & inequality in our society. Using the latest theory & research, the authors show how different groups become socially & economically unequal & how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national.
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    Gender and the Family Labor System: Defining Work in the Rural Midwest » Read Now

    by Mary Neth. 15 pgs.

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    ...Farm Family Land Transfers;" Rural Sociology 45 #2 (1980): 290-308; and Sonya...Ownership Patterns," in Research in Rural Sociology and Development, ed. Harry K...the...
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    Rural Sociology: The Strategy of Change (1957) » Read Now

    by Charles P. Loomis, J. Allan Beegle. 494 pgs.

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    ...RURAL SOCIOLOGY The Strategy of Change Charles P. Loomis J. Allan Beegle RURAL SOCIOLOGY THE STRATEGY OF CHANGE PRENTICE-HALL...STATES OF AMERICA 78442 Foreword Rural...
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    Rural Social Systems: A Textbook in Rural Sociology and Anthropology (1950) » Read Now

    by Charles P. Loomis, J. Beegle Allan. 878 pgs.

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    ...SOCIAL SYSTEMS A TEXTBOOK IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY by CHARLES...of research findings than in rural sociology. During the 40-year period in which rural sociology...
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