Rural communities

Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented.

Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment.

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World.

The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak infrastructure, and inadequate health services.

Based on a study of recent political behaviour in a rural region of India, the author presents a critique of pluralist theories of democracy and advances a new approach to political sociology.

Kechnie places the WI within the context of the country life movement emanating from the United States, arguing that Ontario farm women's attempts to organize should be viewed as part of the Department of Agricultural's efforts to revive the flagging fortunes of the Farmers' Institutes and encourage farm women to embrace "e;scientific home management"e; in order to modernize farm homes and discourage the depopulation of Ontario's farms.

Romina Pleschko zeichnet ein herrlich entlarvendes Bild der Gesellschaftsstrukturen in einer Kleinstadt und stellt ihr eine Heldin gegenüber, die mit allen Wassern gewaschen ist.

Winner, 2024 Arkansiana Book Award, Arkansas Library Association With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries committed to serving Arkansas's smallest communities.

This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus.

Rural life is the principal pivot around which whole Indian social life revolves.

What was life like in the 1950s in small communities in Ontario?

This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America.

A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities.

Rural life in North America has changed dramatically since the days of the family farm, when people worked the same land for generations, let their cows graze in pastures and their chickens scratch in dirt, and sold their produce locally.

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India.

***'In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea.

Rayside conducted informal interviews with more than 150 Glengarrians and attended numerous meetings of local councils, school boards, planning boards, and conservation authorities.

This book uses economics, anthropology, statistics, and history to examine industrial, agricultural and foraging societies.

Finalist: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeIn August 1889, the five states that were once part of the 1861 Dakota TerritoryNorth Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idahodrafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in the United States.

Landscape Liturgies offers outdoor worship material drawn from 2,000 years of outdoor Christian practice.

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government.

Das Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2015/2016 setzt sich kritisch mit dem disziplinären Selbstverständnis von Planung und der Einbindung alltagsweltlicher Analysen auseinander.

Social work, as a profession, originated in the 19th century.

Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.

Russland – ein Land der Extreme und Kontraste, das auf einzigartige Weise urbanen Fortschritt und ländliche Tradition vereint.

Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe.

This book studies recent developments in immigration in one Akha village in northern Thailand by examining issues such as the coffee economy, ethnic relations, religious beliefs and cultural changes.

Based on a study of recent political behaviour in a rural region of India, the author presents a critique of pluralist theories of democracy and advances a new approach to political sociology.

This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies.

How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments?

In 1972 Abbie Ross s cosmopolitan parents move the family from London to rural North Wales, exchanging a town house in Islington for a remote farmhouse on a hill.

In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective.

The present book is a collection of 9 papers and notes from the field in the area of community participation.

Rural communities in Canada are facing a new reality where traditional economic bases such as agriculture, forestry, and manufacturing have eroded.

Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with each other on a regular basis.

Students and film scholars will appreciate this unique volume.

Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside.

Construction of a school building reflected the importance of universal education and a communitys desire to establish permanence in the ever-expanding Western frontier.

Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

Following the birth of the first test-tube baby in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the First Phase of ARTs.

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison.

This book has been written keeping in mind latest developments in the area of agricultural extension.

Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places.

Various branches of sociology study the different aspects of the same reality, that is, society.