Rural Sociology back issues from December 2001:
Mobile home park on the prairie: A new rural community form
Dec 01, 2001; ... Mobile Home Park on the Prairie: A New Rural Community Form* ABSTRACT Mobile home parks are an increasingly common form of residence for the rural poor. A rural central Illinois mobile home park and its residents seemingly possess features-a distinct territory, a homogeneous population, ...
Small business success in rural communities: Explaining the sex gap
Dec 01, 2001; ... Small Business Success in Rural Communities: Explaining the Sex Gap* ABSTRACT Building on previous theory and research, we propose a "structural relational" view of the sex gap in small business success. Our findings, based on analyses of data from 423 small business owners in Iowa, ...
Flexible production on the working waterfront: The social origins of the northwest Atlantic sea urchin industry
Dec 01, 2001; ... Flexible Production on the Working Waterfront: The Social Origins of the Northwest Atlantic Sea Urchin Industry* ABSTRACT In 1986 the northwest Atlantic sea urchin was little more than a nuisance to local fishermen. Six years later, sea urchins were the second most valuable fishery in ...
Local environmental groups: A systematic enumeration in two geographical areas
Dec 01, 2001; ... Local Environmental Groups: A Systematic Enumeration in Two Geographical Areas* ABSTRACT Local environmental groups, although acknowledged increasingly since the mid-1980s, have not been sampled systematically, have been reported to consist of only a few types, and are often considered ...
Residence and income inequality: Effects on mortality among U.S. counties
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT Despite lower average incomes, greater percentages living in poverty, lower levels of health insurance, less preventive health care, and poorer health status, nonmetropolitan residents have been found to experience lower mortality than their metropolitan counterparts. Several pathways ...
Hunting and rural socialization: Contingent effects of the rural setting on hunting participation
Dec 01, 2001; ... Hunting and Rural Socialization: Contingent Effects of the Rural Setting on Hunting Participation* ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between rural socialization and hunting participation. Assessments of the cultural significance of hunting as a "way of life" in rural areas ...
Examining the effects of community satisfaction and attachment on individual well-being
Dec 01, 2001; ... Examining the Effects of Community Satisfaction and Attachment on Individual Well-Being* ABSTRACT Using data collected in a general population survey from a random sample of individuals in four communities in Pennsylvania, I examine the effects of community satisfaction and attachment ...
Three reviews of The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State and Market
Dec 01, 2001; ... Three Reviews of The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market, by Lawrence Busch. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine. 2000. 219 pages. $21.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-202-30622-4. Don E. Albrecht Texas A&M University Lawrence Busch has written an important and ...
The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in the Age of Globalization
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in the Age of Globalization, edited by Ken Ductael, Juliet Webster, and Werner Herrmann. Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 2000. 320 pages. $71.00 (hardcover), $27.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-8476-6589-1. This book is a must-read for those ...
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer / Changing the Way America Farms: Knowledge and Community in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement
Dec 01, 2001; ... Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer, by Richard Rhodes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 2nd ed. 340 pages. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-6717-2507-6. Changing the Way America Farms: Knowledge and Community in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement, by Neva Hassanein ....
Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes
Dec 01, 2001; ... Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes, edited by Richard K. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson. Boulder: Westview, 1999. 459 pp. $25.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-8133-3597-3. After drawing the attention of rural sociologists and farm activists throughout the late 1970s and early ...
Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local
Dec 01, 2001; ... Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, edited by Kevin R. Cox. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1997. 292 pages. $22.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-57230-199-6. Reviewed by Lucy Jarosz University of Washington On December 4, 1999, a headline in the ...
World Hunger: Twelve Myths
Dec 01, 2001; ... World Hunger: Twelve Myths, by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset. New York: Grove Press, 1998. 2nd ed. 270 pages. $13 (paperback). ISBN 0-8021-3591-9. Reviewed by Nan E. Johnson Michigan State University The original edition of this book was published in ...
Small Towns in Multilevel Society
Dec 01, 2001; ... Small Towns in Multilevel Society, by Frank W. Young. Lanham, Maryland: University of Press of America, 1999. 176 pages. $24.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-7618-1424-8. A career-long concern about the development of a coherent sociological theory of community organization lies at the core of ...