Society and Natural Resources Book Series

Kenneth P. Wilkinson

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781646424009
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The Community in Rural America, by Kenneth P. Wilkinson, is a foundational theoretical work that both defines the interactional approach to the study of the community in rural areas and frames its application to encourage and promote rural community development. Recognized for its detailed theoretical construction and logic for understanding human interactions, this book has been widely adopted and used by researchers, extension faculty, and community development practitioners for over thirty years. Presenting Wilkinson's groundbreaking work in its original form, with a new foreword aimed at clarifying several key concepts in interactional theory, this edition of The Community in Rural America will appeal to new students of the community as well as established scholars in the field.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Preface to the Original Edition
• Introduction: Studying the Community in Rural America
• 1. The Community: An Interactional Approach
• 2. The Rural-Urban Variable in Community Research
• 3. The Community and Rural Well-Being
• 4. Rural Community Development
• 5. In Search of the Community in the Changing Countryside
• References
• Index
• About the Author