Rural Communities : Legacy + Change.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- PART ONE INTRODUCTION -- 1 Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape -- The Rural Landscape -- Defining Rural -- Defining Community -- Rural Communities and Change -- Market, State, and Civil Society -- About This Book -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- PART TWO COMPONENTS OF RURAL COMMUNITIES: THE COMMUNITY CAPITALS -- 2 Natural Capital -- Land Use -- Water Concerns -- Importance of Biodiversity -- Climate Change -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 3 Cultural Capital -- Rural Values? -- Cultural Capital and Social Problems -- Diversity in Rural Cultural Capital -- Conflicting Cultural Capitals and Cultural Domination -- Cultural Capital and Hierarchy -- Cultural Capital and the Family -- Transmitting Culture Through the Community -- Impact of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity -- Inequality: Whose Cultural Capital? -- Creating Shared Cultural Capital -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 4 Human Capital -- What Is Human Capital? -- Changes in the Quantity of Human Capital -- Migration of Human Capital -- How Different Capitals Impact Health Status in Rural Areas -- Health Equity -- The Affordable Care Act in Rural America -- Building Human Capital -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 5 Social Capital and Community -- What Is Social Capital? -- Measuring Social Capital -- Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: Homogeneity or Inclusion? -- Entrepreneurial Social Infrastructure -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 6 Political Capital -- Political Capital -- Power and Economic Interests.

Power Structure and Community Change -- Understanding Power Structure and Increasing the Political Capital of Excluded Groups -- Who Gains? -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 7 Financial Capital -- The Concept of Financial Capital -- Accounting and Accountability -- Forms of Financial Capital -- Financial Capital and Community Needs -- Sources of Capital -- The Changing Rules of Financial Capital and Increasing Inequality -- Business Financial Capital and Community -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 8 Built Capital -- Defining Built Capital -- Public versus Private Provision of Built Capital -- Community Choices -- Federal, State, and Local Roles: Making Linkages -- Motivation to Act -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- PART THREE COMMUNITY CAPITALS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD -- 9 The Global Economy -- Altering Globalization: The Growing Importance of Financial Capital -- Rural Linkages to a World Economy -- Opportunities and Risks: Rural Areas in the Global Economy -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 10 Consumption in Rural America -- Consumption and American Exceptionalism -- Consumption and Debt -- Consumption and Consumerism in Rural Areas -- Impacts of Increased Consumption -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 11 Governance -- What Is Governance? -- Organization and Functions of Local Governments -- Challenges Face by Local Governments -- Providing Public Services: An Example of Collaboration -- Sustained Citizen Engagement -- Leveraging Regional Resources -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References.

12 Generating Community Change -- Community and Development -- Models of Community Development -- Factors in Effective Change -- Approaches to Economic Development -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- Index.

This book examines how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals to address the modern challenges that face them. Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.