Rural Communities Legacy Change 5th Edition by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan Flora, Stephen Gasteyer 0367319470 9780367319472

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ISBN 10: 0367319470

ISBN 13: 9780367319472

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

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.

Rural Communities Legacy Change 5th Table of contents:

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1 Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape

The Rural Landscape

Defining Rural

Defining Community

Rural Communities and Change

Market, State, and Civil Society

About This Book

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

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PART TWO: COMPONENTS OF RURAL COMMUNITIES: THE COMMUNITY CAPITALS

2 Natural Capital

Land Use

Water Concerns

Importance of Biodiversity

Climate Change

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

3 Cultural Capital

Rural Values?

Cultural Capital and Social Problems

Diversity in Rural Cultural Capital

Conflicting Cultural Capitals and Cultural Domination

Cultural Capital and Hierarchy

Cultural Capital and the Family

Transmitting Culture Through the Community

Impact of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

Inequality: Whose Cultural Capital?

Creating Shared Cultural Capital

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

4 Human Capital

What Is Human Capital?

Changes in the Quantity of Human Capital

Migration of Human Capital

How Different Capitals Impact Health Status in Rural Areas

Health Equity

The Affordable Care Act in Rural America

Building Human Capital

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

5 Social Capital and Community

What Is Social Capital?

Measuring Social Capital

Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: Homogeneity or Inclusion?

Entrepreneurial Social Infrastructure

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

6 Political Capital

Political Capital

Power and Economic Interests

Power Structure and Community Change

Understanding Power Structure and Increasing the Political Capital of Excluded Groups

Who Gains?

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

7 Financial Capital

The Concept of Financial Capital

Accounting and Accountability

Forms of Financial Capital

Financial Capital and Community Needs

Sources of Capital

The Changing Rules of Financial Capital and Increasing Inequality

Business Financial Capital and Community

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

8 Built Capital

Defining Built Capital

Public versus Private Provision of Built Capital

Community Choices

Federal, State, and Local Roles: Making Linkages

Motivation to Act

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

PART THREE: COMMUNITY CAPITALS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD

9 The Global Economy

Altering Globalization: The Growing Importance of Financial Capital

Rural Linkages to a World Economy

Opportunities and Risks: Rural Areas in the Global Economy

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

10 Consumption in Rural America

Consumption and American Exceptionalism

Consumption and Debt

Consumption and Consumerism in Rural Areas

Impacts of Increased Consumption

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

11 Governance

What Is Governance?

Organization and Functions of Local Governments

Challenges Faced by Local Governments

Providing Public Services: An Example of Collaboration

Sustained Citizen Engagement

Leveraging Regional Resources

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

12 Generating Community Change

Community and Development

Models of Community Development

Factors in Effective Change

Approaches to Economic Development

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Web Resources

References

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