The Rise of the Rural Problem
| Autor: | Carl C. Taylor |
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| Rok vydání: | 1923 |
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| Zdroj: | Social Forces. 2:29-36 |
| ISSN: | 1534-7605 0037-7732 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/3005173 |
| Popis: | RURAL SOCIOLOGY is new in the curricula of colleges and universities. Indeed it is so new that few people know what it is and what it is attempting to do. Rural social problems are new of themselves and therefore a rural sociology which attempts to describe and analyze these problems must necessarily have recently appeared. Marry farm folk even yet resent the suggestion that there are rural conditions which may in any way be designated as prob? lems. For about a decade, however, there have been few things, except the great war and possibly labor problems, about which we have heard so much as we have about "the rural problem." To some people's minds the term "rural prob? lem" is only a shibboleth. To other people's minds it represents some specific single outstanding set of conditions which is fraught with grave dangers for the rural communities of America and possibly for all civilization. It is not worth our while to discuss in a controversial fashion these different concepts of what "the rural problem" is. We shall simply recite those things which are most often said to constitute "the |
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