Rural and Small-Town America (eBook)

Context, Composition, and Complexities

Shannon M Monnat, Tim Slack (Autoren)

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2024
232 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520401150 (ISBN)

Infos

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern American sociology focus disproportionately on urban life. Rural and Small-Town America looks at what we can learn from rural society and confronts common myths and misunderstandings about rural people and places. Tim Slack and Shannon M. Monnat examine social, economic, and demographic changes and how these changes pose both problems and opportunities for rural communities. They assess changes in population size and composition, economies and livelihoods, ethnoracial diversity and inequities, population health and health disparities, and politics and policies. The central focus of this book is that rural America is no paragon of stability. Social change abounds, accompanied by new challenges. Through analysis of empirical evidence, demographic data, and policy debates, readers will glean insights about rural America and the United States as a whole.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 
1. Rural Population Change 
2. Rural Economies and Livelihoods 
3. Rural Ethnoracial Diversity and Inequities 
4. Rural Population Health and Health Disparities 
5. Rural Politics and Policies 
Conclusion 

Notes 
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Sociology in the Twenty-First Century
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Depopulation • Economic Shift • Globalization • Health disparities • industrial sector dependence • mortality rates • nonmetropolitan • policymaking • Politics • population transformations • Racial and Ethnic Diversity • rural america social demographic change
• ISBN-13: 9780520401150 / 9780520401150