Rural Communities

Legacy + Change

Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Stephen P. Gasteyer (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

504 Seiten

2019 | 5th edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31947-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals to address the modern challenges that face them. Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case.

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Cha

Stephen P. Gasteyer

Preface -- Introduction -- Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape -- Components of Rural Communities: The Community Capitals -- Natural Capital -- Cultural Capital -- Human Capital -- Social Capital and Community -- Political Capital -- Financial Capital -- Built Capital -- Community Capitals and Community Development in a Changing World -- The Global Economy -- Consumption in Rural America -- Governance -- Generating Community Change

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-31947-0 / 0367319470
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31947-2 / 9780367319472
Zustand	Neuware