Rural Sociology back issues from December 2002:
From the editor
Dec 01, 2002; ... This issue marks the end of my term as editor of Rural Sociology. Looking back to my introductory note in the very first issue that I edited and the first of the new century, I lightheartedly wrote "that the sky did not fall with Y2K" (Tickamyer 2000:1). Unfortunately, in the interim, the sky ...
Spatial inequality and diversity as an emerging research area
Dec 01, 2002; ... Spatial Inequality and Diversity as an Emerging Research Area* The spatial aspects of social life have captured sociologists' attention. The growing interest in spatializing sociology is well documented, and arises both from the legacy of past research traditions and from attempts to ...
Changing income inequality in nonmetropolitan counties, 1980 to 1990
Dec 01, 2002; ... Changing Income Inequality in Nonmetropolitan Counties, 1980 to 1990* ABSTRACT Income inequality has been increasing across the United States, but little is known about changing income inequality in nonmetropolitan counties. Data from the 1980 and 1990 Summary Tape Files of the U.S ....
Poor people in poor places: Local opportunity structures and household poverty
Dec 01, 2002; ... Poor People in Poor Places: Local Opportunity Structures and Household Poverty* ABSTRACT Accounts of poverty generally fall into either "individualist" or "structuralist" camps. Often these are seen as irreconcilable and incompatible competing perspectives. This paper integrates ...
Local labor markets and caseload decline in Louisiana in the 1990s
Dec 01, 2002; ... Local Labor Markets and Caseload Decline in Louisiana in the 1990s* ABSTRACT Efforts to explain declines in welfare caseloads in the 1990s focus on three factors (economic opportunity, welfare policy, and demographic characteristics) and produce mixed results. Although several recent ...
Spatial variations in church burnings: The social ecology of victimized communities in the South
Dec 01, 2002; ... Spatial Variations in Church Burnings: The Social Ecology of Victimized Communities in the South* ABSTRACT In recent years, church burnings in the South have attracted a great deal of attention. Many commentators have charged that they are a product of strained race relations throughout ...
Race and gender inequality in homeownership: Does place make a difference?
Dec 01, 2002; ... Race and Gender Inequality in Homeownership: Does Place Make a Difference?* ABSTRACT Racial differences in homeownership have long been a topic of sociological study. Previous studies, however, neglected to consider differences in levels of homeownership between nonmarried black and ...
Paths of destruction and regeneration: Globalization and forests in the tropics
Dec 01, 2002; ... Paths of Destruction and Regeneration: Globalization and Forests in the Tropics* ABSTRACT Globalization has spatially and temporally varied effects on forest cover in the tropics. It destroys primary forests (first nature) in some places at the same time that it creates secondary and ...
Review essay: Whither rural community development?
Dec 01, 2002; ... Partnerships in Communities: Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America, by Jean Richardson. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000. 366 pages. $25.00 (paperback). ISBN 1-55963-736-6. Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach, edited by Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott ...
Lakota Culture, World Economy
Dec 01, 2002; ... Lakota Culture, World Economy, by Kathleen Ann Pickering. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 173 pages. $42.50 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8032-3690-5. Reviewed by Brian Alan Baker Cornell University Lakota Culture provides an unprecedented glimpse into ...
Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and a Struggle for a New Environmentalism
Dec 01, 2002; ... Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and a Struggle for a New Environmentalism, by Patrick Novotny. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 115 pages. $58.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-275-96026-9. Reviewed by Douglas H. Constance Sam Houston State University ...
The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests
Dec 01, 2002; ... The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests, by William P. Browne. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. 224 pages. $54.95 (hardcover); $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-87840-857-6. The Failure of National Rural Policy builds on Browne's well-documented ...
Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low-Wage Labor in Oklahoma
Dec 01, 2002; ... Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low-Wage Labor in Oklahoma, by Robert Lee Maril. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. 190 pages. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8061-3255-8. Reviewed by W. Richard Goe Kansas State University Waltzing With the Ghost of ...
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Dec 01, 2002; ... An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, by Jimmy Carter. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 285 pages. $15.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-7432-1199-5. Reviewed by Nan E. Johnson Michigan State University In this autobiography, the thirty-ninth president of the United ...
Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes / The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach
Dec 01, 2002; ... Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes, by Rosalia RodriguezGarcia, James A. Macinko, and William F. Waters. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. 160 pages. $62.50 (hardcover). ISBN 0-31331633-3. The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, by Rose ...
Social Integration in the Second Half of Life
Dec 01, 2002; ... Social Integration in the Second Half of LIfe, edited by Karl Pillemer, Phyllis Moen, Elaine Wethington, and Nina Glasgow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 318 pages. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-8018-6453-2. Reviewed by Frederick O. Lorenz Iowa State University ...
State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice
Dec 01, 2002; ... State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice, edited by Paul E. Durrenberger and Thomas D. King. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2000. 264 pages. $69.50 (hardcover). ISBN 0-89789-706-4. Reviewed by Joseph J. Molnar Auburn University The diminishing ...
The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics
Dec 01, 2002; ... The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethno-politics, by Zoltan Barany. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press, 2001. 408 pages. $25.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-00910-3. Reviewed by Kai A. Schafft Cornell University The social and political transformations ...