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The Community Effect in Rural Places
The 65th annual Rural Sociological Society meeting theme challenges us to explore the distictiveness of rural communities and to ask whether the social relationships and place attachments that bond people together in the past are still relevant in our age of rapid and political change. In recent years, urban scholars have linked neighborhood characteristics to the functioning of families and individuals who live and work there. This fruitful perspective suggests that as rural sociologists we should pay attention to whether, and to what extent, community effects identified by urban sociologists apply to rural places, particularly to the many new community forms rapidly emerging.
Our theme invites us not only to examine how rural communities and their residents are shaped by their geography, history and culture, and reshaped by demographic, social and environmental change, but also to broaden the concept of a community effect to include the link between the characteristics of rural places and a wide range of issues. These issues include such important and timely rural concerns as how elderly are supported, children nurtured, poverty reduced, crime resisted, urban sprawl confronted, economic development managed and environmental problems addressed.
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