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Rural Communities : Legacy and Change by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Stephen P. Gasteyer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. __Rural Communities: Legacy and Change__ uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals (natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built) to address the modern challenges that face them. Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case. This narrative, topical approach makes the book accessible and engaging for undergraduate students, while its integrative approach provides them with a framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts and explanations of social science. This fifth edition is updated throughout with 2013 census data and features new and expanded coverage of health and health care, food systems and alternatives, th

Who reads Rural Communities : Legacy and Change?

Author

Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Stephen P. Gasteyer

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032512167

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Social Science