Recently added articles from Rural Sociology:
From the Editor's Desk
Dec 01, 2008; ... It seems like yesterday that the first manuscript submitted to Rural Sociology arrived in the editorial office for review and ultimate decision. That was January 2005. Over three years and about 450-500 new manuscripts and revisions later, this issue is the last one of my term as RS editor. It ...
On Diversity, Empathy, and Community: The Relevance of Johann Gottfried Herder*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The writings of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) foreshadowed several of the dominant theories of sociology, social psychology, aesthetics, linguistics and literary theory. His ideas impacted generations of thinkers, but today he is uncelebrated, mostly unknown. His writings on ...
Social Capital, Organic Agriculture, and Sustainable Livelihood Security: Rethinking Agrarian Change in Mexico*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper explores the relevance of extra local market linkages and local-level social capital to sustainable livelihood outcomes in two agrarian communities on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Contextualized by the specificity of Mexico's transition from state-directed rural development to ...
Competing for Coffee Space: Development-Induced Displacement in the Central Highlands of Vietnam*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Vietnam has emerged as the world's second largest producer of coffee. The benefits of this expanding coffee economy are substantial but not universal; their distribution follows ethnic lines despite government commitment to equalize welfare. Focusing on Dak Lak Province in Vietnam's ...
The Impact of Economic Shocks on Quality of Life and Social Capital in Small Towns*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Economic shocks are sudden events causing a significant impact on the local economy. Disaster community literature predicts that community outcomes from shocks will depend on the kind of shock. Consensus crisis shocks will be followed by increases in social capital and quality of life ....
Troubled Pastures, Troubled Pictures: French Agriculture and Contemporary Rural Sociology*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In contrast to those of other industrialized western European countries, France's agricultural community continued to represent the majority of the national population for a long time and only became one of many minority groups at the end of the twentieth century. It then came under the ...
Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility
Dec 01, 2008; ... Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility, by Christopher A. Simon, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. 233 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-7425-4909-8/0-7425-4909-7. A confluence of factors, including concerns about dwindling supplies of fossil ...
American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market
Dec 01, 2008; ... American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market, by David Griffith, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 234 pp. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN: 0-271-02949-8. American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market by David ...
Nonstandard Employment in the Nonmetropolitan United States*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT We examine the prevalence of nonstandard employment in the nonmetropolitan United States using the Current Population Survey Supplement on Contingent Work (1999 and 2001). We find that nonstandard work is more prevalent in nonmetropolitan than in central city or suburban areas. Logistic ...
The Sociology of Spatial Inequality
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Sociology of Spatial Inequality, edited by Linda M. Lobao, Gregory Hooks and Ann R. Tickamyer, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. 274 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-7914-7108-1. As sociologists, we often examine inequality in the context of sociodemographic variables ...
Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature
Dec 01, 2008; ... Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature, by Michael R. Redclift, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 236 pp. $23.00 (paper). ISBN: 10: 0-262-68160-9. Redclift's book is one of the most interesting sociological books exploring the separation of nature and society (or society-nature ...
State Welfare Rules, TANF Exits, and Geographic Context: Does Place Matter?*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This research compares the likelihood of exiting TANF with and without employment and the effects of important state TANF rules on welfare exits in more disadvantaged (large Rustbelt cities and poor southern nonmetro) and less disadvantaged (other metro and other nonmetro) areas during ...
Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization
Dec 01, 2008; ... Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization, edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray and John Wilkinson, New York: Routledge, 2007. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 0-415-77203-6. The academic literature on fair trade has expanded substantially in the past few years, moving ...
A Place to Call Home: Cultural Understandings of Heir Property among Rural African Americans*
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Heir property is land held communally by family members of a landowner who has died intestate. Because this informal arrangement does not fit neatly into the individualist-centered, integrated property rights system of the United States, it is viewed by most as a hindrance to economic ...
Rural Parentage and Labor Market Disadvantage in a Sub-Saharan Setting: Sources and Trends*
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT High unemployment in many developing countries is intensifying job competition and raising concern for the employment prospects of vulnerable groups, including children of rural parents. This paper examines the trends and sources in employment disadvantage associated with rural ...
Network Framing of Pest Management Knowledge and Practice*
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Conventional technology transfer is based on the assumption that autonomous individuals independently make behavioral decisions. In contrast, Actor-Network Theory (ANT) suggests that people and technologies are interconnected in ways that reinforce and reproduce some types of knowledge ...
The Effects of Violence and Internal Displacement on Rural-Agrarian Change in Turkey*
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper addresses two interrelated issues that have assumed major political significance in the handling of the Kurdish question in Turkey. The first is the impact of violence and resulting internal displacement in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey on rural-agrarian change. The second ...
Poverty Catchments: Migration, Residential Mobility, and Population Turnover in Impoverished Rural Illinois Communities
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Research has thoroughly documented how out-migration of the educated and skilled from rural areas leaves behind a poorer population and creates pockets of rural poverty. Recently, studies have recognized that the poor are also geographically mobile and that poverty migration patterns ...
Does it or Doesn't it? Geographic Differences and the Costs of Living
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The relative cost of living in rural areas has long been of interest to rural sociologists. Today, the popular perception is that rural prices are lower. This study examines geographic differences in the costs of living in Kentucky. The results indicate that, contrary to the popular ...
Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity
Sep 01, 2008; ... Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity, by Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers, and David Mushinski, University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2006. 244 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN: 0-271-02877-7. Chapter seven of Welfare Reform in ...