Rural Communities: Legacy + Change 5th Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813349710
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813349718
• Author: Cornelia Butler Flora

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, the effects of neoliberalism and globalization on rural communities, as well as an expanded resource and activity section at the end of each chapter.

Table contents:

1 Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape

2 Natural Capital

3 Cultural Capital

4 Human Capital

5 Social Capital and Community

6 Political Capital

7 Financial Capital

8 Built Capital

9 The Global Economy

10 Consumption in Rural America

11 Governance

12 Generating Community Change

Title tag:

1. Rural Communities: Legacy + Change 5th Edition – Exploring Societal Transformations
2. Unveiling the Evolution – Rural Communities: Legacy + Change Fifth Edition
3. Rural Communities 5E: Insights into Legacy, Change, and Future Opportunities