Against All Odds: Rural Community In The Information Age (Rural Studies)

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The authors’ model orients this community in the vortex of recent forces, pointing up, for instance, the need for face-to-face interaction among residents as opposed to the larger society’s demand for electronic communication. With increasing conflicts between the culture of rural communities and that of the “out of doors world” occurring, small towns far and wide the USA are losing their businesses, their doctors, and their sense of community. Yet the town described in this study is thriving.Against All Odds identifies pride, determination, and a sense of belonging that will have to be nurtured—and the local organization that binds all of these factors together—with the intention to keep a small town alive in the face of powerful disruptive forces. Not since Vidich and Bensman’s landmark Small Town in Mass Society has any such thoughful examination of a recent rural community been to be had.
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