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Evidence of a Housing Decision Chain in Rural Community Vitality
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Cook, Christine C.; Crull, Sue R.; Bruin, Marilyn J.; Yust, Becky L.; Shelley, Mack C.; Laux, Sharon; Memken, Jean; Niemeyer, Shirley; White, B. J. – Rural Sociology, 2009
The purpose of this research was to explore and explain the role housing plays in rural community vitality. Community vitality refers to economic strength and social well-being. In spring 2002 we collected primary interview data from informants in 134 small rural communities in nine north-central states and identified related secondary data from…
Descriptors: Population Trends, Housing, Rural Areas, Community Characteristics
Changing Leaders and Leadership Structure: A Longitudinal Study
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Nix, Harold L.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1977
This longitudinal analysis focuses on two different, yet structurally related, processes: changes over time in a community's leadership structure, and changes over time of those individuals who occupy leadership positions. The former process occurs over a longer time span and is system centered, while the latter occurs more frequently and is…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Leaders, Individual Power, Longitudinal Studies
Local Growth and the Outside Contacts of Influentials: An Alternative Test of the "Growth Machine" Hypothesis.
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McGranahan, David A. – Rural Sociology, 1984
While other studies of local efforts to promote small town growth have generally shown negative results, this study of 88 small northwestern Michigan towns during the 1970s focused on external ties and contacts of local influentials and tended to support the growth machine hypothesis. Extensive metropolitan contacts increased population/program…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Planning, Community Programs, Community Size
Community Attachment among Leaders in Five Rural Communities.
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O'Brien, David J.; Hassinger, Edward W. – Rural Sociology, 1992
Interviews with 75 leaders in 5 rural Missouri communities identified "sense of fit" and community evaluation as dimensions of leaders' community attachment that were related to each other but were associated differently with leader characteristics such as education. Leaders' local attachments appeared to inhibit linkages to outside…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Leaders, Educational Attainment
Satisfaction with Rural Services: The Policy Preferences of Leaders and Community Residents.
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Molnar, Joseph J.; Smith, John P. – Rural Sociology, 1982
The study of the relationship between satisfaction and spending preferences among 522 community leaders and 926 household residents in 8 rural Alabama counties indicated that generally higher levels of satisfaction were found among community residents; but, with some exceptions, leaders tended to prefer more spending on community services. (NQA)
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Satisfaction, Community Services, Community Support
The Social Networks of Leaders in More or Less Viable Communities Six Years Later: A Research Note.
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O'Brien, David J.; Raedeke, Andrew; Hassinger, Edward W. – Rural Sociology, 1998
Six-year followup study of five rural Missouri communities found that community viability in terms of maintenance as trade and service center had become disconnected from demographic variables such as school enrollment. Unexpectedly, leaders of more viable places were not better educated or demographically different from other leaders, but had…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Leaders, Followup Studies
A Longitudinal Analysis of Satisfaction with Selected Community Services in a Nonmetropolitan Area.
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Molnar, Joseph J.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1979
There is a relationship between changes in satisfaction with community services and community group membership (businesses, community leaders, households), but changes in attitudes towards individual services are not related to changes in overall community satisfaction, based on a three-year study of such services in three rural Alabama counties.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Business, Community Attitudes, Community Leaders