Modernization and Rural Population Movements

In geographic studies of modernization, attention has tended to focus on the processes of urbanization and the characteristics of urban areas rather than on rural areas. The latter have been included in macro-scale studies such as those of Gould and Soja in Africa investigating the spatial diffusion of modernization. In their studies of change in the Pacific, Brookfield (1973) and his associates also worked in rural communities, concentrating on the micro-scale. In research dealing with change in rural Latin America, emphasis has been on colonization studies and ruralurban migration, (Parsons, 1973; Preston, 1974; Stouse, 1971) but study of the effects of urbanization on change within a traditional rural areas has been neglected. Further, there have been few attempts in research on modernization to integrate macro and micro studies or to work at an intermediate scale

Cartography · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Latin Americans · Modernization theory · Political science · Regional science · Rural area · Scale (ratio) · Urbanization · Rural development and sustainability

• Paradise lost

  Open Access•John M Hunter, Sonia I Arbona•Social Science & Medicine•1995

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• The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition

  Open Access•Wilbur Zelinsky•Geographical Review•1971

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