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Spatial Inequality: Continuity and
Change in Territorial Stratification
The theme invites participants to examine how social change unfolds territorially and its consequences for public well-being at various spatial scales. Rural Sociologists have a rich legacy of research on spatial stratification processes and our meeting theme invites us to explore and extend this heritage. Our theme challenges us to address three issues:
- How do markers of stratification such as economic well-being, race/class and gender inequalities, health and education statuses, and environmental degradations, vary spatially?
- How are distinct rural regions and communities produced by social, economic and political forces, such as global trade, devolution and restructuring of agriculture and other industries?
- The what extent has a new social ecology of capitalism emerged or do older, spatial allocation processes of inequality persist?
In addressing these topics, rural sociology invariably builds from and extends other disciplines such as geography, regional science and agricultural economics and has created a more spatially comparative sociology.
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