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Rural sociology is a field of sociology traditionally associated with the study of social structure and conflict in rural areas. It is an active academic field in much of the world, originating in the United States in the 1910s with close ties to the national Department of Agriculture and land-grant university colleges of agriculture.
One of the simplest, but clearest definition of rurality is that one that expresses rurality as "a condition of place-based homeliness [clarification needed] shared by people with common ancestry or heritage and who inhabit traditional, culturally defined areas or places statutorily recognized to be rural".(Chigbu 2013, p. 815).
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. [1] Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements.
The automobile allows rural residents to travel farther, in less time, for goods and services. This, along with decreasing rural population , reduces the importance of the rural store. As businesses relocate from other communities, one town will become the trade center for its region, sometimes constructing a shopping mall .
Rural American history is the history from colonial times to the present of rural American society, economy and politics. [1] Rural area; Economics.
Rural geography (11 C, 40 P) S. Rural sociology (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Rural society" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consist of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what constitutes ...
A rural settlement in Pahang, Malaysia. The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. In some others, rural settlements traditionally do not ...