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CABI Publishing Persistence and Change in Rural Communities A Fifty Year Follow-up to Six Classic Studies 2003 Edition by Albert E. Luloff, Richard S. Krannich
In the 1930s and 1940s the US Department of Agriculture undertook detailed studies of six US rural communities representing various patterns of social and economic change that were affecting rural America. These studies became classics in the literature on rural communities, and for the past half-century have helped to develop major theoretical perspectives in community sociology. Fifty years later the same study areas were revisited by a team of rural sociologists, with the goal of assessing what changes have occurred and what community characteristics have persisted. This book assesses these changes in rural life. "This volume is an important addition to the sociological literature on rural communities. "Willis Goudy, The Agricultural History Review, 2003 Table of contents :- 1: Introduction, A E Luloff and R S Krannich 2: Community change and community theory, J C Bridger, Penn State University, USA, A E Luloff and R S Krannich 3: Sublette, Kansas: Persistence and change in Haskell County, L Bloomquist, Kansas State University, USA, D Williams, Nodaway County Outreach and Extension Center, USA and J C Bridger, Penn State University, USA 4: Irwin, Iowa: Persistence and change in Shelby County, E Hoiberg, Iowa State University, USA 5: Community change in Harmony, Georgia, 1943-1993, G P Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 6: Community change & persistence: Landaff, New Hampshire, F Schmidt, Centre for Rural Studies, Burlington, Vermont, USA, E Skinner, Shelburne Farms, Vermont, L A Ploch, University of Maine & R S Krannich 7: Community and social well-being in contemporary El Cerrito, R S Krannich and C Eastman, New Mexico State University, USA 8: The old order Amish community 50 years later, A E Luloff, J C Bridger, Penn State University, USA and L A Ploch, University of Maine, USA 9: A fifty-year perspective on persistence and change: Lessons from the rural studies communities, R S Krannich and A E Luloff"