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Direct linkLichter, Daniel T. – Rural Sociology, 2012
This article highlights the new racial and ethnic diversity in rural America, which may be the most important but least anticipated population shift in recent demographic history. Ethnoracial change is central to virtually every aspect of rural America over the foreseeable future: agro-food systems, community life, labor force change, economic…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Intergroup Relations, Rural Areas, Immigration
Clement, Matthew Thomas – Rural Sociology, 2009
Environmental social scientists debate whether or not modern development reduces society's impact on the biosphere. The empirical research informing the discussion has not yet adequately examined the social determinants of municipal solid-waste (MSW) generation, an increasingly relevant issue, both ecologically and sociologically. A primary…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Counties, Environmental Standards, Sanitation
Peer reviewedHerzog, William A., Jr. – Rural Sociology, 1973
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, Literacy, Rural Areas
Peer reviewedFrisbie, W. Parker; Al-Khalifah, Abdullah H. M. – Rural Sociology, 1991
Analysis of data from Saudi Arabia indicates that, despite great departures from typical patterns of urbanization seen in the West, there is a strong association between urbanization and the division of labor as predicted by ecological theory. Contains 38 references. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Social Change
Peer reviewedPatrick, Clifford H.; Ritchey, P. Neal – Rural Sociology, 1974
Descriptors: Decentralization, Development, Economic Development, Employment Patterns
Peer reviewedGroth, Philip – Rural Sociology, 1977
Testing hypotheses in which the level of urbanization of countries and economic subregions of the South were related to their plantation and/or their political economic character, it was found that neither the political economic nor the plantation theory offered a sound explanation of the rurality of the South. (Author/JC)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Hypothesis Testing, Political Influences, Rural Areas
Peer reviewedBopegamage, A.; Kulahalli, R. N. – Rural Sociology, 1972
Studies the urban influence on rural areas by comparing selected castes and their traditional occupations in urbanized and nonurbanized villages in India. (NQ)
Descriptors: Occupations, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences, Social Change
Peer reviewedForm, William H. – Rural Sociology, 1971
Hypotheses related to migrants' adaptation to occupational and social systems of industrial society were tested using data on automobile workers from rural and urban backgrounds in countries at different levels of industrialization: India, Argentina, Italy, and United States. Hypotheses were the industrial man hypothesis and the developmental…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Citations (References), Cultural Influences, Industrialization
Peer reviewedFriedland, William H. – Rural Sociology, 1982
Rural sociology confronts a continuing crisis of identity because of its failure to develop a sociology of agriculture. Despite an initial focus on agriculture, rural sociology became deflected to the analysis of rurality. Several neo-Populist and neo-Marxist developments in the sociology of agriculture hold promise for a revised rural sociology.…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Futures (of Society), Government Role, Higher Education
