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dc.contributor.authorWuthnow, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-17T15:26:07Z
dc.date.available2015-09-17T15:26:07Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-01
dc.identifier.citationSocial Thought and Research, Volume 33 (2014), pp. 21-44. DOI:10.17161/STR.1808.18444en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/18444
dc.description.abstractMuch has been written in recent years about the decline, problems, distinctive traditions, and political conservatism of small rural “heartland” communities. I discuss the important place that rural communities occupied in the development of modern sociological theories, the focus of recent empirical studies of these communities, and the arguments that have been advanced about population decline and the stultifying effects of closed social networks. I then describe evidence that supports arguments about social resilience in small rural communities, including recent demographic figures about population stability, data on social capital and open networks, and qualitative information about small-town values and lifestyles.en_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Sociology, University of Kansasen_US
dc.titleAmerica's Heartland: A Case for Social Resilience?en_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.17161/STR.1808.18444
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
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