Don E Albrecht
Biographic Data
| ID | 145994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don E Albrecht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don E |
| FAMILY NAME | Albrecht |
| SIGNATURE | ALBRECHT D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6616-740X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Donald Trump and changing rural/urban voting patterns
Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline☆
A long line of sociological research has found that rural residents tend to be more conservative than urban residents in the U.S. on a wide range of attitudes and behaviors. Two primary arguments have been utilized to understand why these differences exist. First, rural/urban differences were thought to be largely a function of rural isolation and differences in types of employment. As rural areas have become less isolated and employment differen…
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States
Rural residents in the United States do not always agree on local development priorities, yet understanding and accounting for their preferences is a step towards more effective and equitable community development. We use survey data spanning different types of rural Intermountain West communities to gauge residents' preference weights for economic and environmental rural development goals. Given that community tenure and age are often related to…
Covid-19 in Rural America: Impacts of Politics and Disadvantage
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, people living in cities were much more likely than rural residents to become infected with and die from the virus. Beginning in the summer of 2020, however, the proportional increase in virus spread became much greater in rural areas. By March 2021, per capita cases and deaths were greater in nonmetro than in metro areas. Multi-variate regression analysis found that political views were the most important variable …
Recognition and stigma of prescription drug abuse disorder: Personal and community determinants
In light of the continued risks that individuals with PDA behaviors face in potentially transitioning to illicit opioid use, the findings of this survey suggested a continued need for public education and outreach. Of particular note is the perspective of those who have self-identified with the condition, as this population faces the largest risks of adverse health outcomes from illicit drug use within the survey respondents
Rural versus urban perspectives on behavioral health issues and priorities
Local incidence of behavioral health issues such as substance abuse or poor mental health are a topic of increasing concern, but the specific needs, issues, and priorities of cities can differ from those in rural areas. We illustrate how rural and urban perceptions and knowledge may differ with a survey about community behavioral health priorities in Clark County, Nevada. The survey had a 44% response rate and the sample was 77.3% urban. Rural le…
The Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West - By Linda Hussa
Social Status, Adolescent Behavior, and Educational Attainment
Education has long been recognized as an institution that plays a prominent role in the reproduction of social class. Children from socially advantaged backgrounds tend to achieve higher educational outcomes than children from more disadvantaged backgrounds. In this study, data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were utilized to better understand the relationship between social advantage, high school educationa…
Economic Restructuring, the Educational Income Gap, and Overall Income Inequality
An important consequence of the economic structure transformations of recent decades is increased income inequality. While an extensive literature has explored the relationship between economic restructuring and inequality, the unique contribution of this article is that it develops and tests a model that explores the mechanisms by which this process occurs. Specifically, the intervening role of the income gap between the well-educated and those …
Inequality in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties: Factors Related to Variation and Change
This manuscript attempts to improve social science understanding of inequality by utilizing data for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties from the 1990 and 2000 Census. It was found that a set of social conditions were stronger predictors of inequality than either economic structure or the contextual variables. The primary exception was that inequality levels were much higher in the nonmetro South than in other regions. The most important so…
The Demographic and Economic Implications of Globalization for the Nonmetropolitan United States
After passing through eras labeled as “Small Town in Isolation” and “Small Town in Mass Society,” it is argued that nonmetropolitan America is now entering the era of “Small Town in Global Society.” Two factors that distinguish global society from mass society are worldwide competition and the reduced relevance of location. In this article, a model is developed to explore the factors related to demographic and economic outcomes in a global societ…
The Benefits and Costs of Inequality for the Advantaged and Disadvantaged
Objectives. To test theoretical models intended to improve our understanding of the consequences of increased inequality for advantaged and disadvantaged populations. Methods. The 5 percent PUMS (Public Use Microdata Sample) data from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing were analyzed using a variety of ANOVA and regression techniques. Results. It was found that in geographic areas where inequality levels were high, individuals with low leve…
Income Inequality: The Implications of Economic Structure and Social Conditions
During the past few decades income inequality has been increasing in the United States and other developed nations, and is having major social consequences. In this study county-level data for the United States was analyzed to test the relative importance of three alternative approaches for explaining increased levels of inequality. These three approaches include economic structure, social conditions, and a model that maintains that both social c…
Minority Concentration, Disadvantage, and Inequality in The Nonmetropolitan United States
The implications of the residential concentration of minority populations are issues of vital concern in the United States. Much of the previous minority concentration literature has focused on African-American residents of metropolitan communities. This article expands on this literature by exploring a variety of minority groups in nonmetropolitan communities. It was found that the minority residents of communities with large minority population…
Metro/Nonmetro Residence, Nonmarital Conception, and Conception Outcomes
Two of the most significant changes affecting U.S. society during the 20th century were transformations in family structure and the transition from a nonmetropolitan/farm society to a largely metropolitan society. In this study, classic sociological theory, developed to understand differences between metro and nonmetro society, was employed. Despite contentions that the residence variable is no longer viable, we hypothesized that nonmetro interac…
Three Reviews of The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market , by Lawrence Busch
Poverty in Nonmetropolitan America: Impacts of Industrial, Employment, and Family Structure Variables
Poverty is more extensive and more severe in nonmetropolitan areas than in metropolitan areas. Here we maintain that the extensive industrial and economic transformations occurring in rural areas have resulted in patterns contributing to these high poverty levels. These transformations, which include an increase in service‐sector employment, in many ways mirror the economic changes that have occurred in the inner city. We maintain that Wilson's m…
The Industrial Transformation of Farm Communities: Implications for Family Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions
The industrialization of agriculture has resulted in extensive declines in the number of farms and in the number of people employed in agriculture. For many farm communities, this has resulted in rapid population declines. Other farm communities have been able to attract alternative sources of employment. This study analyzes family structure and socioeconomic conditions in 281 Great Plains counties that were economically dependent on agriculture …
The Mechanization of Agriculture: A Historical Case Study of the Implications for Families and Communities
The Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture: Dualism Out, Industrialism In
Between 1982 and 1992, trends in farm structural change resumed patterns that had existed from the Great Depression to the 1970s. That is, farms became fewer and larger. By 1992, the number of American farms declined below two million for the first time since the Civil War. Also, the trend toward dualism noted in the 1970s is over, as the number of small farms again declined rapidly during the 1980s. The trend toward large‐scale agriculture is mo…
Visualizing Trends in the Structure of U.S. Agriculture, 1982 to 1992 1
Multiple indicators of the structure of agriculture were extracted from the U.S. Census of Agriculture for the years 1982, 1987, and 1992, and used to extend previous work by Wimberley (1987). Exploratory factor analysis results for each year yielded three dimensions of agri‐structure: corporate‐commercial, farming‐firm, and small‐farm. Factor‐scores used to estimate scales had high reliabilities (omega coefficients > .9) and strong inter‐tempora…
The Renewal of Population Loss in the Nonmetropolitan Great Plains
An analysis of population trends in 293 nonmetropolitan Great Plains counties from 1950 to 1990 reveals that the population turnaround of the 1970s has indeed ended. During the 1980s, 84 percent of these nonmetropolitan counties had total population declines, a proportion greater than any other decade studied. A majority of counties had natural population increase, but such increases were offset by net outmigration as 96 percent of the counties h…
The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective
The Correlates of Farm Concentration in American Agriculture
In recent years, the most pronounced change in the structure of American agriculture has been the increasing concentration of farm production. A human ecological perspective was used to generate hypotheses about the factors related to variations in farm concentration in U.S. counties. Analysis using the 1978 and 1987 Censuses of Agriculture revealed that concentration is greatest in counties with higher levels of agricultural intensity, greater u…
Neighborhood Selection and Residential Segregation
Residential segregation has long been a topic of investigation for urban scholars. In attempting to understand this phenomenon, most researchers have examined the characteristics of different residential neighborhoods (typically census tracts) and have often compared the composition of the population within the census tract over time. This study looks at the household characteristics of the mobile family, as well as the aggregate characteristics …
Poverty in Nonmetropolitan America: Impacts of Industrial, Employment, and Family Structure Variables
Poverty is more extensive and more severe in nonmetropolitan areas than in metropolitan areas. Here we maintain that the extensive industrial and economic transformations occurring in rural areas have resulted in patterns contributing to these high poverty levels. These transformations, which include an increase in service‐sector employment, in many ways mirror the economic changes that have occurred in the inner city. We maintain that Wilson's m…
Minority Concentration, Disadvantage, and Inequality in The Nonmetropolitan United States
The implications of the residential concentration of minority populations are issues of vital concern in the United States. Much of the previous minority concentration literature has focused on African-American residents of metropolitan communities. This article expands on this literature by exploring a variety of minority groups in nonmetropolitan communities. It was found that the minority residents of communities with large minority population…
Metro/Nonmetro Residence, Nonmarital Conception, and Conception Outcomes
Two of the most significant changes affecting U.S. society during the 20th century were transformations in family structure and the transition from a nonmetropolitan/farm society to a largely metropolitan society. In this study, classic sociological theory, developed to understand differences between metro and nonmetro society, was employed. Despite contentions that the residence variable is no longer viable, we hypothesized that nonmetro interac…
The Renewal of Population Loss in the Nonmetropolitan Great Plains
An analysis of population trends in 293 nonmetropolitan Great Plains counties from 1950 to 1990 reveals that the population turnaround of the 1970s has indeed ended. During the 1980s, 84 percent of these nonmetropolitan counties had total population declines, a proportion greater than any other decade studied. A majority of counties had natural population increase, but such increases were offset by net outmigration as 96 percent of the counties h…
The Industrial Transformation of Farm Communities: Implications for Family Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions
The industrialization of agriculture has resulted in extensive declines in the number of farms and in the number of people employed in agriculture. For many farm communities, this has resulted in rapid population declines. Other farm communities have been able to attract alternative sources of employment. This study analyzes family structure and socioeconomic conditions in 281 Great Plains counties that were economically dependent on agriculture …
Closing the gates: A study of backcountry use‐limitation at Mount McKinley National Park
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Covid-19 in Rural America: Impacts of Politics and Disadvantage
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, people living in cities were much more likely than rural residents to become infected with and die from the virus. Beginning in the summer of 2020, however, the proportional increase in virus spread became much greater in rural areas. By March 2021, per capita cases and deaths were greater in nonmetro than in metro areas. Multi-variate regression analysis found that political views were the most important variable …
Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline☆
A long line of sociological research has found that rural residents tend to be more conservative than urban residents in the U.S. on a wide range of attitudes and behaviors. Two primary arguments have been utilized to understand why these differences exist. First, rural/urban differences were thought to be largely a function of rural isolation and differences in types of employment. As rural areas have become less isolated and employment differen…
The Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture: Dualism Out, Industrialism In
Between 1982 and 1992, trends in farm structural change resumed patterns that had existed from the Great Depression to the 1970s. That is, farms became fewer and larger. By 1992, the number of American farms declined below two million for the first time since the Civil War. Also, the trend toward dualism noted in the 1970s is over, as the number of small farms again declined rapidly during the 1980s. The trend toward large‐scale agriculture is mo…
Income Inequality: The Implications of Economic Structure and Social Conditions
During the past few decades income inequality has been increasing in the United States and other developed nations, and is having major social consequences. In this study county-level data for the United States was analyzed to test the relative importance of three alternative approaches for explaining increased levels of inequality. These three approaches include economic structure, social conditions, and a model that maintains that both social c…
Visualizing Trends in the Structure of U.S. Agriculture, 1982 to 1992 1
Multiple indicators of the structure of agriculture were extracted from the U.S. Census of Agriculture for the years 1982, 1987, and 1992, and used to extend previous work by Wimberley (1987). Exploratory factor analysis results for each year yielded three dimensions of agri‐structure: corporate‐commercial, farming‐firm, and small‐farm. Factor‐scores used to estimate scales had high reliabilities (omega coefficients > .9) and strong inter‐tempora…
Donald Trump and changing rural/urban voting patterns
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States
Rural residents in the United States do not always agree on local development priorities, yet understanding and accounting for their preferences is a step towards more effective and equitable community development. We use survey data spanning different types of rural Intermountain West communities to gauge residents' preference weights for economic and environmental rural development goals. Given that community tenure and age are often related to…
The Correlates of Farm Concentration in American Agriculture
In recent years, the most pronounced change in the structure of American agriculture has been the increasing concentration of farm production. A human ecological perspective was used to generate hypotheses about the factors related to variations in farm concentration in U.S. counties. Analysis using the 1978 and 1987 Censuses of Agriculture revealed that concentration is greatest in counties with higher levels of agricultural intensity, greater u…
The Benefits and Costs of Inequality for the Advantaged and Disadvantaged
Objectives. To test theoretical models intended to improve our understanding of the consequences of increased inequality for advantaged and disadvantaged populations. Methods. The 5 percent PUMS (Public Use Microdata Sample) data from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing were analyzed using a variety of ANOVA and regression techniques. Results. It was found that in geographic areas where inequality levels were high, individuals with low leve…
Recreational Access to Private Forests: The Impact of Hobby Farming and Exclusivity
This study analyzes public use policies among nonindustrial forestland owners in southern Wisconsin. Landowners' status as “hobby farmers” increased the likelihood that they would restrict public use. However, taking positive action to limit access through posting also required that owners report having past problems with public recreationists, use their own property for recreation, and have ownerships large enough to make direct surveillance imp…
Freedom versus control: A study of backpackers’ preferences for wilderness management
The rationing of public access to wildlands frequently is used by land management agencies to protect both physical resources and the quality of visitors’ experiences. Establishing and enforcing optimum use levels, however, presents a dilemma in that wilderness often is perceived in the public mind as permitting spontaneity of behavior and escape from bureaucratic regimentation. We studied the receptivity of backpackers to use limitations at Moun…
Social Status, Adolescent Behavior, and Educational Attainment
Education has long been recognized as an institution that plays a prominent role in the reproduction of social class. Children from socially advantaged backgrounds tend to achieve higher educational outcomes than children from more disadvantaged backgrounds. In this study, data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were utilized to better understand the relationship between social advantage, high school educationa…
Economic Restructuring, the Educational Income Gap, and Overall Income Inequality
An important consequence of the economic structure transformations of recent decades is increased income inequality. While an extensive literature has explored the relationship between economic restructuring and inequality, the unique contribution of this article is that it develops and tests a model that explores the mechanisms by which this process occurs. Specifically, the intervening role of the income gap between the well-educated and those …
Neighborhood Selection and Residential Segregation
Residential segregation has long been a topic of investigation for urban scholars. In attempting to understand this phenomenon, most researchers have examined the characteristics of different residential neighborhoods (typically census tracts) and have often compared the composition of the population within the census tract over time. This study looks at the household characteristics of the mobile family, as well as the aggregate characteristics …
Understanding Farm Structure and Demographic Change: An Ecological Analysis of the Impacts of Irrigation
During this century, rapid changes in the structure of agriculture have had a profound effect on agricultural production and rural areas dependent on agriculture. Unfortunately, however, holistic theoretical models to explain and understand the causes and consequences of these changes have yet to be adequately developed. In this article, a model derived from sociological human ecology is used to longitudinally examine the consequences of environm…
Resource depletion and agriculture: The case of groundwater in the Great Plains
Researchers in the sociology of agriculture have increasingly used variables representing the physical environment to assist them in understanding the adoption of agricultural technology by farm operators, the variations that exist in farm structure, and the consequences of changes in the availability of critical natural resources. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of research on the consequences of resource depletion in agriculture. To partially …
Freedom versus control: A study of backpackers’ preferences for wilderness management
The rationing of public access to wildlands frequently is used by land management agencies to protect both physical resources and the quality of visitors’ experiences. Establishing and enforcing optimum use levels, however, presents a dilemma in that wilderness often is perceived in the public mind as permitting spontaneity of behavior and escape from bureaucratic regimentation. We studied the receptivity of backpackers to use limitations at Moun…
Closing the gates: A study of backcountry use‐limitation at Mount McKinley National Park
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Recreational Access to Private Forests: The Impact of Hobby Farming and Exclusivity
This study analyzes public use policies among nonindustrial forestland owners in southern Wisconsin. Landowners' status as “hobby farmers” increased the likelihood that they would restrict public use. However, taking positive action to limit access through posting also required that owners report having past problems with public recreationists, use their own property for recreation, and have ownerships large enough to make direct surveillance imp…
Constituency of the Antigrowth Movement: A Comparison of the Growth Orientations of Urban Status Groups
This study tested the "status-growth hypothesis," which holds that antigrowth values are more pervasive among middle- and upper-class persons than those in blue-collar positions. Businessmen, however, were expected to be an exception to this pattern by displaying a strong attachment to progrowth orientations. The respondents were metropolitan residents in Iowa. Contrary to expectations, antigrowth sentiment was most pervasive among blue-collar re…
Understanding Farm Structure and Demographic Change: An Ecological Analysis of the Impacts of Irrigation
During this century, rapid changes in the structure of agriculture have had a profound effect on agricultural production and rural areas dependent on agriculture. Unfortunately, however, holistic theoretical models to explain and understand the causes and consequences of these changes have yet to be adequately developed. In this article, a model derived from sociological human ecology is used to longitudinally examine the consequences of environm…
Constraints to the fulfillment of residential preferences among Texas homebuyers
A 1983 survey of Texas homebuyers reveals a high degree of mismatch between their preferred and actual residences. Analysis indicates that the logit of fulfilling residential preference is largely determined by the type of area preferred and the occupation and age of the homebuyer. Mismatch is most common among homebuyers preferring a suburban location, less so for those preferring nonmetropolitan residences, and lowest among people preferring ce…
Resource depletion and agriculture: The case of groundwater in the Great Plains
Researchers in the sociology of agriculture have increasingly used variables representing the physical environment to assist them in understanding the adoption of agricultural technology by farm operators, the variations that exist in farm structure, and the consequences of changes in the availability of critical natural resources. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of research on the consequences of resource depletion in agriculture. To partially …
Neighborhood Selection and Residential Segregation
Residential segregation has long been a topic of investigation for urban scholars. In attempting to understand this phenomenon, most researchers have examined the characteristics of different residential neighborhoods (typically census tracts) and have often compared the composition of the population within the census tract over time. This study looks at the household characteristics of the mobile family, as well as the aggregate characteristics …
The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective
The Correlates of Farm Concentration in American Agriculture
In recent years, the most pronounced change in the structure of American agriculture has been the increasing concentration of farm production. A human ecological perspective was used to generate hypotheses about the factors related to variations in farm concentration in U.S. counties. Analysis using the 1978 and 1987 Censuses of Agriculture revealed that concentration is greatest in counties with higher levels of agricultural intensity, greater u…
The Renewal of Population Loss in the Nonmetropolitan Great Plains
An analysis of population trends in 293 nonmetropolitan Great Plains counties from 1950 to 1990 reveals that the population turnaround of the 1970s has indeed ended. During the 1980s, 84 percent of these nonmetropolitan counties had total population declines, a proportion greater than any other decade studied. A majority of counties had natural population increase, but such increases were offset by net outmigration as 96 percent of the counties h…
Visualizing Trends in the Structure of U.S. Agriculture, 1982 to 1992 1
Multiple indicators of the structure of agriculture were extracted from the U.S. Census of Agriculture for the years 1982, 1987, and 1992, and used to extend previous work by Wimberley (1987). Exploratory factor analysis results for each year yielded three dimensions of agri‐structure: corporate‐commercial, farming‐firm, and small‐farm. Factor‐scores used to estimate scales had high reliabilities (omega coefficients > .9) and strong inter‐tempora…
The Mechanization of Agriculture: A Historical Case Study of the Implications for Families and Communities
The Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture: Dualism Out, Industrialism In
Between 1982 and 1992, trends in farm structural change resumed patterns that had existed from the Great Depression to the 1970s. That is, farms became fewer and larger. By 1992, the number of American farms declined below two million for the first time since the Civil War. Also, the trend toward dualism noted in the 1970s is over, as the number of small farms again declined rapidly during the 1980s. The trend toward large‐scale agriculture is mo…
The Industrial Transformation of Farm Communities: Implications for Family Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions
The industrialization of agriculture has resulted in extensive declines in the number of farms and in the number of people employed in agriculture. For many farm communities, this has resulted in rapid population declines. Other farm communities have been able to attract alternative sources of employment. This study analyzes family structure and socioeconomic conditions in 281 Great Plains counties that were economically dependent on agriculture …
Poverty in Nonmetropolitan America: Impacts of Industrial, Employment, and Family Structure Variables
Poverty is more extensive and more severe in nonmetropolitan areas than in metropolitan areas. Here we maintain that the extensive industrial and economic transformations occurring in rural areas have resulted in patterns contributing to these high poverty levels. These transformations, which include an increase in service‐sector employment, in many ways mirror the economic changes that have occurred in the inner city. We maintain that Wilson's m…
Three Reviews of The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market , by Lawrence Busch
Metro/Nonmetro Residence, Nonmarital Conception, and Conception Outcomes
Two of the most significant changes affecting U.S. society during the 20th century were transformations in family structure and the transition from a nonmetropolitan/farm society to a largely metropolitan society. In this study, classic sociological theory, developed to understand differences between metro and nonmetro society, was employed. Despite contentions that the residence variable is no longer viable, we hypothesized that nonmetro interac…
Minority Concentration, Disadvantage, and Inequality in The Nonmetropolitan United States
The implications of the residential concentration of minority populations are issues of vital concern in the United States. Much of the previous minority concentration literature has focused on African-American residents of metropolitan communities. This article expands on this literature by exploring a variety of minority groups in nonmetropolitan communities. It was found that the minority residents of communities with large minority population…
The Benefits and Costs of Inequality for the Advantaged and Disadvantaged
Objectives. To test theoretical models intended to improve our understanding of the consequences of increased inequality for advantaged and disadvantaged populations. Methods. The 5 percent PUMS (Public Use Microdata Sample) data from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing were analyzed using a variety of ANOVA and regression techniques. Results. It was found that in geographic areas where inequality levels were high, individuals with low leve…
Income Inequality: The Implications of Economic Structure and Social Conditions
During the past few decades income inequality has been increasing in the United States and other developed nations, and is having major social consequences. In this study county-level data for the United States was analyzed to test the relative importance of three alternative approaches for explaining increased levels of inequality. These three approaches include economic structure, social conditions, and a model that maintains that both social c…
Inequality in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties: Factors Related to Variation and Change
This manuscript attempts to improve social science understanding of inequality by utilizing data for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties from the 1990 and 2000 Census. It was found that a set of social conditions were stronger predictors of inequality than either economic structure or the contextual variables. The primary exception was that inequality levels were much higher in the nonmetro South than in other regions. The most important so…
The Demographic and Economic Implications of Globalization for the Nonmetropolitan United States
After passing through eras labeled as “Small Town in Isolation” and “Small Town in Mass Society,” it is argued that nonmetropolitan America is now entering the era of “Small Town in Global Society.” Two factors that distinguish global society from mass society are worldwide competition and the reduced relevance of location. In this article, a model is developed to explore the factors related to demographic and economic outcomes in a global societ…
Economic Restructuring, the Educational Income Gap, and Overall Income Inequality
An important consequence of the economic structure transformations of recent decades is increased income inequality. While an extensive literature has explored the relationship between economic restructuring and inequality, the unique contribution of this article is that it develops and tests a model that explores the mechanisms by which this process occurs. Specifically, the intervening role of the income gap between the well-educated and those …
The Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West - By Linda Hussa
Economics (23 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Demographic economics (16 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (15 works) · Demography (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Population (11 works) · Socioeconomics (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works)