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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Rural Sociology"”.
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The Diffusion of Conservation Technology: A Dyad Analysis of Innovators and Their Neighbors
… of the dominant adoption and diffusion model in rural sociology are tested.
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The survival and re-emergence of family farming: A study of the Holsworthy area of west Devon
… to ways of conceptualising family farming in rural sociology both as a specific form of economic production within capitalism and as a component of a traditional middle class in society. The persistence, indeed re-emergence, of familial production in agriculture is explained in the context of …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… studies, agroecology, critical race studies, rural sociology, critical historiography, agrifood studies, and regional studies to further a person-centered critique of industrial agriculture. It uses the scalar model to connect Mississippi’s history of small scale farming, black land loss, and …
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A Multi-Method Analysis of the Role of Spatial Factors in Policy Analysis and Health Disparities Research
… links spatial conceptual perspectives from rural sociology and health geography to provide the theoretical framework for the relevance of integrating space in policy analysis and diet and health disparities research. The multi-method approach provides a more comprehensive examination of diet …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
… in the fields of prehistory, ethnopsychiatry, rural sociology, and the history of religions. To reveal this peculiar tradition in the French human sciences, I examine the intellectual biographies of four protagonists: Georges Bataille, a novelist, anthropology enthusiast, and amateur …
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Social-ecological systems resilience in changing rural landscapes of the Midwestern United States
… and Wisconsin has demonstrated how meanings for rural places were embedded within interpretations of social-ecological functioning. This work informs rural sociology, conservation planning and landscape restoration. In chapter two, I looked at stakeholder narratives about the causes of and …
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Water as property: the social impact of water reform on agriculturalists in the Murray-Darling Basin New South Wales
This thesis contributes to sociology and social policy discussions on water reform in New South Wales, Australia. While the study draws on political economy theory in examining water as ‘property’ under economic rationalism policies, it makes an ethnographic contribution to rural sociology as it …
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“Our Forever Home”: Loss of Place and Shale Gas Development in Western Pennsylvania
… data come from a comparative case study of two rural areas in Western Pennsylvania with differing intensity and duration of local shale gas development, Washington and Lawrence Counties. Washington County had its first unconventional shale well in 2004 and had 709 shale wells at the start of my …
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We Gotta Work with What We Got: School and Community Factors That Contribute to Educational Resilience Among African American Students
… claim and deploy agency and resiliency in a rural community context entrenched in a legacy of oppression. Black, low-income communities are implicitly labeled non-resilient when macro-level community capitals and resiliency literature are applied. However, I find that resiliency is culturally …
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An action research investigation into new ways rural women in Western Australia can increase their involvement in government decision-making
… technologies (ICTs) in the promotion of rural women's participation in governmental decision-making. The origins of the research lie in apparent discrepancies between the Australian government’s high-level, policy commitment to increase rural women's involvement in government …
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Stress and Substance Use during Pregnancy for Alaska Native and Rural Alaskan Women
… during pregnancy is largely under-examined in rural contexts and among indigenous populations. This study finds that stress is significantly associated with higher odds of binge drinking and tobacco use during pregnancy for Alaskan women. Further, living in a rural community or living in a …
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"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive": Using FX's Justified to Form A Cultural Understanding of Crime in Harlan County, Kentucky
<p>Rural southern violence has long been a sensationalized issue. From the Hatfield and McCoy feud to Deliverance, social issues unique to the rural south have received a significant amount of focus within modern popular culture. One of the most recent and popular examples of southern culture and …
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Factors That Contribute to Student Graduation and Dropout Rates: An In-Depth Study of a Rural Appalachian School District
… from this study suggest that students in this rural Appalachian region of the nation face many obstacles in pursuit of a high school diploma. They include poverty, high rates of mobility, a lack of parental involvement, practice of grade retention by the district, and a lack of role models. …
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Rural Appalachian Health Care Providers' Perceived Barriers to Intimate Partner Violence Screening in Primary Care
… with the detection and management of IPV in rural primary care being largely understudied. The current study addresses this gap in the literature by describing the screening practices and barriers to screening reported by rural providers as well as differences in rural and urban providers in …
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From Community Policing And Crime Control To Security Policing And Citizen Control: Rural And Small-Town Policing In Post 9/11 America
<p>Research is lacking on rural and small-town policing in the post 9/11 era. This is unfortunate in view of changing perceptions of threat and insecurity, the financial crisis of 2008 and curtailments placed on funding for rural and small-town police agencies. This thesis argues that the …
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Support Needs of Agrarian Women To Build Household Livelihood Resilience: A Case Study of the Mekong River Delta
<p>Problem</p> <p>Rural livelihood faces significant challenges due to the increasing frequency and severity of climate change impacts. However, the development of women’s livelihood resilience remains constrained by gender-blind policies, limited sex-disaggregated data, and a lack of integration …
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Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Hazards, Environmental and Health Risks as the Latent Products of Late Modernity
<p>CAFOs raise tens of thousands of animals in confined cages and feedlots, feed them high calorie diets, and ship them to slaughter in record time. These factory farms (as they are sometimes called) devastate neighboring environments with the releases of toxic methane gas and animal waste. …
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The changing face of rural general practice: an ethnographic study of general practitioners and their spouses
Rural general practice is general practice at its best: a comment by one GP interviewed for this study was echoed by colleagues who viewed their work in a rural setting as challenging, diverse, rewarding and satisfying. Despite reported difficulties associated with rural general practice, many GPs …
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