Examines the sociocultural impact of television and the historical development of stereotyping of Blacks on TV, analyzing "The Cosby Show" as an example of counterstereotyping and projecting the future of Blacks in television in the 1990s. Blacks must gain entry into broadcasting to contribute to the image-rebuilding process. (AF)

This paper identifies and describes development of rural sociological research in the southern United States. It traces the emergence of rural sociology as a discipline from recognition of problems of rural life in the early 1900's, points out that the northern United States predominated in early research, and discusses why early rural…