Settlement patterns and cultural beliefs help explain how people relate to their communities and how concepts of community can differ. These factors play a role in how communities adjust to change. In the Midwest, for example, they suggest why many communities populated by descendants of Germans evolved differently from others populated by "Yankees" of British descent
Social identity in rural communities can explain the common tendency to resist change. Well-establis...
Rural regions in the United States are home to nearly one in five Americans. For decades, health dis...
The process by which beliefs, opinions, and other individual, socially malleable attributes spread a...
Many rural areas of the United States are experiencing population decline due to out‐migration. Howe...
Using a grounded theory approach of qualitative inquiry, this study explored the processes of cultur...
This project examines how rural identity informs notions of community. Specifically, it places the v...
Development is contentious in high‐amenity rural areas experiencing migration‐driven population grow...
The developmental trajectories of communities are routinely explained by reference to economic histo...
After passing through eras labeled as “Small Town in Isolation ” and “Small Town in Mass Society, ” ...
Although many people intuitively believe that persons from rural settings hold a set of values, beli...
Rural areas are presently challenged by various restructuring processes; functionally and economical...
Decisions to live in a certain place or region are partly prompted by material and symbolic factors ...
This article considers how structures of community feeling and ways of belonging are produced, maint...
Much has been written in recent years about the decline, problems, distinctive traditions, and polit...
Anthropological research suggests that the predominant ethnic background of rural communities is rel...
Social identity in rural communities can explain the common tendency to resist change. Well-establis...
Rural regions in the United States are home to nearly one in five Americans. For decades, health dis...
The process by which beliefs, opinions, and other individual, socially malleable attributes spread a...
Many rural areas of the United States are experiencing population decline due to out‐migration. Howe...
Using a grounded theory approach of qualitative inquiry, this study explored the processes of cultur...
This project examines how rural identity informs notions of community. Specifically, it places the v...
Development is contentious in high‐amenity rural areas experiencing migration‐driven population grow...
The developmental trajectories of communities are routinely explained by reference to economic histo...
After passing through eras labeled as “Small Town in Isolation ” and “Small Town in Mass Society, ” ...
Although many people intuitively believe that persons from rural settings hold a set of values, beli...
Rural areas are presently challenged by various restructuring processes; functionally and economical...
Decisions to live in a certain place or region are partly prompted by material and symbolic factors ...
This article considers how structures of community feeling and ways of belonging are produced, maint...
Much has been written in recent years about the decline, problems, distinctive traditions, and polit...
Anthropological research suggests that the predominant ethnic background of rural communities is rel...
Social identity in rural communities can explain the common tendency to resist change. Well-establis...
Rural regions in the United States are home to nearly one in five Americans. For decades, health dis...
The process by which beliefs, opinions, and other individual, socially malleable attributes spread a...