Geo
490c
The Country & the City
Spring 2009
Department of Geography
and Meteorology
Valparaiso
University
Woods Chpater 15: Changing Rural Lifestyles
Salamon, Sonya. 2003. From Hometown to Nontown: Rural Community Effects of Suburbanization. Rural Sociology 68, no. 1 (March): 1-24.
Reading Notes:
How has rural restructuring transformed people and places "on the
ground?" Why did rural studies ignore alternative lifestyles? How
do the case study towns differ in Salamon?
Key Terms:
situated knowledge, agrarian, postagrarian, community
Rural Lifestyles
Situated Knowledge
Community Studies
How does restruturing transform place identity and sense of community
Characteristics of case study towns
Differences among long time residents and newcomers
Which towns in Northwest Indiana are similar to the case study towns?
Treatment of youth as a barometer of social effects of restructuring
What can be done to help preserve traditional values or to bridge the gap between the traditional and the new if anything?
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