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Rural Communities

Study Guide

Study Guide

Rural Communities

Legacy & Change

Jan L. Flora,
Cornelia Butler Flora,
and Elizabeth Houdek

First published 1992 by Westview Press

Published 2019 by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1992 by Ohio University/Corporation for Public Broadcasting

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28625-5 (hbk)

Acknowledgments

Course Development Team

The course was designed by a team of educators and leaders in rural studies and adult learning.

Patricia Dewees, Assistant Director
Independent Study, Ohio University

Cornelia Butler Flora, Department Head and Professor of Sociology
Virginia Poly technical Institute and State University

Jan L. Flora, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Sociology
Virginia Poiytechnical Institute and State University

Jacqueline D. Spears, Co-Director
Rural Clearinghouse for Lifelong Education and Development
Kansas State University

Louis E. Swanson, Professor of Sociology
University of Kentucky

Mark L. Weinberg, Director
The Institute for Local Government Administration and Rural Development
Ohio University

Advisory Board

An advisory board of nationally recognized experts from the fields of rural studies, sociology, economics, and adult learning has contributed to the development of the course.

Walter J. Armbruster, Managing Director
Farm Foundation

D. Stanley Eitzen, Professor of Sociology
Colorado Slate University

Richard Jonsen, Executive Director
Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education

Mark B. Lapping, Dean and Professor
Faculty of Planning
Rutgers University

Brent Sargent, Director
The Office of External Programs for the Vermont State Colleges

Janet Whitaker, Director, Instructional Technology
District Office, Maricopa Community College

Consulting Scholars

Fred Schmidt, Director
Center for Rural Studies
University of Vermont

Eric Hoiberg, Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Iowa State University

Don Stull
Institute for Public Policy and Business Research
University of Kansas

Michael Hibbard, Professor of Planning
Department of Planning, University of Oregon

Richard Krannich, Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Utah State University

Richard W. Stoffell, Associate Research Anthropologist
University of Arizona

Stephen F. Steele, Chair
Department of Sociology & Human Services
Anne Arundel Community College

Gary Green, Director
Division of Applied Research
University of Georgia

Production

RURAL COMMUNITIES: Legacy and Change is produced by the Ohio University Telecommunications Center, Marvin Bowman, Executive Director.

Producers, Gary Mills and Keith Newman

Major funding for RURAL COMMUNITIES: Legacy and Change is provided by the Annenberg/CPB Project. The Project was created in 1982 with the goal of increasing opportunities for Americans to acquire a high-quality college education using telecommunications and information technologies. The Project leads a national movement to make innovative, technology-based educational materials widely available for educational institutions, libraries, and individuals.

Additional funding for the programs has been provided by the Farm Foundation, the Institute for Local Government Administration and Development at Ohio University, and the West Virginia Humanities Council.

Contents

Guide

Thomas Jefferson claimed in 1785 that "cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds."

Since Jefferson's era, politicians have continued to invoke rural people and rural communities as the last outpost of true democracy. Art and popular culture have conspired to keep the myth alive and add to it the notion that real community exists only in small rural towns. During the last decade, the radio show "Prairie Home Companion" gained enormous success by dramatizing the myth of a quaint farm community peopled by eccentric but extremely moral and conservative characters. Television advertising sells cars and soda pop with lovely rural landscapes.

Real images find real rural communities in transition as economies based on agriculture and natural resources decline, as telecommunications makes it easier to know what happened in Chicago than in a neighboring town, and as the location of a Wal-Mart becomes more important than the election of a local school board.

The transition has been painful for some communities, challenging for others, and ambiguous for most. Rural people struggle to find solutions to the economic problems they face. Urban people, many of whom are products of rural America, struggle with the nostalgia of past images and the reality of modern life. They find themselves wondering if small communities can continue to survive in a global economy. Urban and rural people need a framework from which to understand the changes underway.

Among the questions asked by RURAL COMMUNITIES: Legacy and Change are:

* How can land so rich in resources be unable to support those who live there?

* How do communities balance the need for tradition with the need for change?

* Can growth be sustained without sacrificing the sense of community important to those living there?

* How do communities capture the resources needed to respond to change?

* What are effective ways of empowering disadvantaged groups in rural communities?

RURAL COMMUNITIES: Legacy and Change is designed to help you examine these questions. The course consists of 12 one-hour programs and an additional one-hour video discussion with the course design team, a textbook on rural communities, and this study guide.

The terms, concepts, and research tools used by social scientists are introduced in the text materials to help you understand the problems confronting rural communities from the perspective of the social and economic changes underway in the nation as a whole.

RURAL COMMUNITIES: Legacy and Change is divided into four parts. Each part examines rural communities from a different perspective, enabling you to explore the complexity and diversity among them. Collectively the four parts examine the process of community development and transitionexploring the ways in which history, culture, and policies limit change as well as the extent to which local community resources can mobilize to support efforts for community change.

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