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ID20085
NAMEK A Schafft
GIVEN NAMESK A
FAMILY NAMESchafft
SIGNATURESCHAFFT K A
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0002-7762-3236
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS381
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX13
  • Roma education in Romania and the translation of policy into practice

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Diana-Cristina Bódi et al.•ARTICLE•Human Organization•2026

    Romania has undergone significant social and economic growth since the collapse of communism in 1989. However, this development has been uneven and concentrated in urban areas, with rural areas economically peripheralized. Despite Romania’s growth, Roma share fewer benefits of the recent economic expansion. Therefore, to be Roma in rural Romania represents a kind of “double jeopardy” in which racial inequity combines with spatial inequality for e…

  • Turning Their Back on Kids”

    Open Access•J D Sherman, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 20

    Others have argued that smaller rural school environments have socially and academically protective factors that can have particularly positive outcomes for low-income youth These imaginations of rural schooling are broadly consistent with understandings of rural places as bucolic, communitarian spaces, perhaps isolated from the wider world but with unique stocks of social capital

  • This Is a Good Neighborhood. This Ain’t No Pittsburgh!”

    Ian Burfoot‐rochford, Ian Burfoot-Rochford et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2021•References: 58

    Purpose: This study examines the local and institutional factors that shape how educators and educational leaders in western Pennsylvania have understood and responded to rapid growth in opioid misuse and drug overdose within their communities. We examine how educational leaders and educators in two rural school districts in western Pennsylvania made sense of growing opioid misuse as not only a social problem but also a local problem, and how tha…

  • Rurality and Crises of Democracy

    Open Access•K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2021•Cited by: 16•References: 65

    This article discusses the growing political divide in the United States and how ideological polarization has increasingly assumed spatial dimensions, as rural areas have become strongly associated with Republican support, and urban areas have become associated with strong Democratic support. In the context of the recent Trump administration, marked not only by authoritarian tendencies, ethno-nationalism, and hostility towards democratic institut…

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty-First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings

    Open Access•I Carrillo, Katrina Quisumbing King et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2021•Cited by: 18•References: 90

    This article, which also serves as the introduction for this special guest-edited issue, examines the history of Rural Sociology's scholarly engagement with rurality, race, and ethnicity. We examine the historical patterns of how Rural Sociology has addressed race and ethnicity, and then present results from a meta-analysis of empirical articles published between 1971 and 2020. Over time, the methodological approaches and scholarly focus of artic…

  • Beyond Cultural and Structural Explanations of Regional Underdevelopment

    E K Peine, Amy Price Azano et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Appalachian Studies•2020

    This article brings together education, rural sociology, and political economic perspectives to examine the role of Appalachia in ongoing conversations about civic polity and dynamics of social, economic, and spatial exclusions. First, we explore how the imaginaries of the Appalachian region (and American rurality more generally) reflect the marginalization of those spaces in the context of a deepening rural-urban divide where both are framed as …

  • A “Resource Curse” for Education

    Matthew Gardner Kelly, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 12

    In Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region, the recent shale gas boom profoundly reshaped communities, local institutions, and living circumstances for many residents. We focus on one particular local institution – the public school – to investigate the relationship between unconventional gas development and education funding. Using geographic information systems software, we identify unconventional drilling activity between 2007 and 2015 and link …

  • A decade of Marcellus Shale

    Open Access•Jeffrey Jacquet, Anne N Junod et al.•ARTICLE•The Extractive Industries and…•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 37

  • Reconceptualizing rapid energy resource development and its impacts

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Kathryn J Brasier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 30

  • Mobilities, Fixities and Stabilities in Rural Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Boomtowns

    Open Access•Ian Burfoot‐rochford, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Sociologia Ruralis•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    The mobilities 'turn' within human geography and the social sciences has drawn attention to the ways in which social connections and interactions variously transcend, undo and reconfigure spatial boundaries and identities. In this study we utilise mobilities theory to analyse Marcellus Shale gas boomtown growth in Pennsylvania and the experiences of local residents living in these boomtown areas. We use data from interviews conducted in two rural…

  • Busted amidst the Boom

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Erin Mchenry‐sorber et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2018•Cited by: 23•References: 47

    In the middle of the first decade of this century new technological innovations enabled the extraction of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing within gas-bearing shale and other unconventional energy reserves. As a consequence, many places, often in economically lagging rural areas, saw dramatic change as they were socially and economically transformed through rapid natural resource development. Although scholarship on so-called bo…

  • Roma political agency and spaces of social inclusion and exclusion

    K A Schafft, Roland Ferkovics•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    This paper examines the perspectives of local Roma leaders regarding the ongoing impacts, contradictions and civic outcomes of Hungary's 1993 Act 77 on the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities, legislation that created the framework for minority self-governance among Hungary's thirteen recognized minority groups. We use interview data with Roma self-government leaders to examine the perceptions and experiences of Roma leaders regarding nation…

  • School Choice, Racial Segregation, and Poverty Concentration

    Open Access•Stephen Kotok, Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Policy•2017

    This article examines how student movements between traditional public schools (TPSs) and charters—both brick and mortar and cyber—may be associated with both racial isolation and poverty concentration. Using student-level data from the universe of Pennsylvania public schools, this study builds upon previous research by specifically examining student transfers into charter schools, disaggregating findings by geography. We find that, on average, t…

  • Rural Education As Rural Development

    K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 28

    Despite the significant proportions of rural Americans, schools, and public school students situated in the geographic peripheries of an increasingly urbanizing country, rural education in the United States has consistently occupied both scholarly and policy peripheries. This is to the detriment of rural America, especially to the extent that public policy and educational practice may work at cross-purposes with the vitality and well-being of rur…

  • Opportunity, Ambivalence, and Youth Perspectives on Community Change in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region

    K A Schafft, Kai Schafft et al.•ARTICLE•Human Organization•2015

    Across vast swaths of mostly rural Pennsylvania, dramatic social, economic, and environmental transformations have occurred in the last five years as these regions have experienced a new natural resource boom in the form of unconventional natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale formation. While Pennsylvania's former Governor, Tom Corbett, and shale industry advocates hailed these developments as an economic godsend for Pennsylvania, other…

  • Axiology and Anomaly in the Practice of Mixed Methods Work

    Open Access•Catharine Biddle, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Journal of Mixed Methods Research•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 24

    This article uses a Kuhnian framework to explain the adoption of the transformative paradigm in pragmatically informed mixed methods research. We argue that pragmatism represents a model of “normal science” among many mixed methods researchers and that Kuhn’s concept of the scientific anomaly provides an instructive metaphor for understanding what we interpret to be a failure of pragmatic mixed methods researchers to adequately account for the ax…

  • Make My Day, Shoot a Teacher’

    Erin Mchenry‐sorber, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in class-situated values over education philosophy and financing. These differences can produce contentious political environments, vastly complexifying local decision-making, including school district policy-making, budgeting, and teacher contract negotiations. Through an exemplar case study, we examine …

  • Local Impacts of Unconventional Gas Development within Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Region

    K A Schafft, Leland Glenna et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2014•Cited by: 30•References: 6

    Using survey and interview data gathered from educators and educational administrators, we investigate school and community impacts of unconventional gas extraction within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region. Respondents in areas with high levels of drilling are significantly more likely to perceive the effects of local economic gains, but also report increased inequality, heightened vulnerability of disadvantaged community members, and pronoun…

  • School and Community Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region, and the Dilemmas of Educational Leadership in Gasfield Boomtowns

    K A Schafft, Catharine Biddle•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2014•References: 12

    Innovations associated with gas and oil drilling technology, including new hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques, have recently led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. The Marcellus Shale play, one of the world's largest gas-bearing shale formations, lies beneath approximately two-thirds of Pennsylvania, including some of the state's most economically laggi…

  • Educational Sorting and Residential Aspirations Among Rural High School Students

    Open Access•Robert A Petrin, K A Schafft et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2014•Cited by: 23•References: 24

    An extended body of research has documented the outmigration of the “best and brightest” youth from rural areas. Some of this scholarship has suggested that rural schools and educators may be complicit in this process as they devote extra attention and resources to the highest achieving students—those most likely to leave their rural communities after high school. Using data from a national multimethod study, we find mixed support for this hypoth…

  • Place and Purpose in Public Education

    K A Schafft, Catharine Biddle•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 8

    Local control of schooling has been considered a defining feature of the American school system; however, in the past several decades public schooling has also increasingly been subject to the influence of extralocal institutional mandates that encourage curricular and organizational standardization. We conducted a content analysis of 480 school district mission statements from Pennsylvania to understand the relationships between school and place…

  • The Relationship between Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania and Local Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Yetkin Borlu et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2013•Cited by: 72•References: 25

    Recent advances in gas and oil drilling technology have led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. In Pennsylvania's Marcellus gas fields, the recent development of unconventional shale gas resources has not been without controversy. It has been variously framed as a major opportunity for economic revitalization at the local and regional levels and energy independence at the na…

  • Moonshine, Mountaineers, and Modernity

    E K Peine, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Journal of Appalachian Studies•2012

    We would like to thank Dr. James Overholt for his help in contacting interview subjects involved in the moonshine trade. Without his enthusiastic support, and without the generous participation of the people of Cocke County, this project would never have been possible. Appalachia is a region richly mythologized in U.S. culture, and in many ways, the moonshiner represents the pinnacle of this imaginary Appalachia. Using Cocke County, Tennessee, as…

  • The Impact of Migration on Poverty Concentrations in the United States, 1995-2000

    Open Access•Matt Foulkes, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2010•Cited by: 21•References: 21

    Poverty is frequently conceptualized as an attribute of either people or places. Yet residential movement of poor people can redistribute poverty across places, affecting and reshaping the spatial concentration of economic disadvantage. In this article, we utilize 1995 to 2000 county-to-county migration data from the 2000 United States decennial census to explore how differential migration rates of the poor and nonpoor affect local incidence of p…

  • Food Deserts and Overweight Schoolchildren

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Eric B Jensen et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2009•Cited by: 21•References: 42

    The concept of the food desert, an area with limited access to retail food stores, has increasingly been used within social scientific and public health research to explore the dimensions of spatial inequality and community well-being. While research has demonstrated that food deserts are frequently characterized by higher levels of poverty and food insecurity, there has been relatively little research examining the relationship between food dese…

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  • The Relationship between Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania and Local Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Yetkin Borlu et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2013•Cited by: 72•References: 25

    Recent advances in gas and oil drilling technology have led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. In Pennsylvania's Marcellus gas fields, the recent development of unconventional shale gas resources has not been without controversy. It has been variously framed as a major opportunity for economic revitalization at the local and regional levels and energy independence at the na…

  • Poverty, Residential Mobility, and Student Transiency within a Rural New York School District

    Open Access•K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2006•Cited by: 32•References: 12

    Human capital models assume residential mobility is both voluntary and opportunity-driven. Residential mobility of low income households, however, often does not fit these assumptions. Often characterized by short-distance, high frequency movement, poverty-related mobility may only deepen the social and economic instability that precipitated the movement in the first place. Children may be particularly affected because of disrupted social and aca…

  • Local Impacts of Unconventional Gas Development within Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Region

    K A Schafft, Leland Glenna et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2014•Cited by: 30•References: 6

    Using survey and interview data gathered from educators and educational administrators, we investigate school and community impacts of unconventional gas extraction within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region. Respondents in areas with high levels of drilling are significantly more likely to perceive the effects of local economic gains, but also report increased inequality, heightened vulnerability of disadvantaged community members, and pronoun…

  • Busted amidst the Boom

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Erin Mchenry‐sorber et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2018•Cited by: 23•References: 47

    In the middle of the first decade of this century new technological innovations enabled the extraction of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing within gas-bearing shale and other unconventional energy reserves. As a consequence, many places, often in economically lagging rural areas, saw dramatic change as they were socially and economically transformed through rapid natural resource development. Although scholarship on so-called bo…

  • Educational Sorting and Residential Aspirations Among Rural High School Students

    Open Access•Robert A Petrin, K A Schafft et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2014•Cited by: 23•References: 24

    An extended body of research has documented the outmigration of the “best and brightest” youth from rural areas. Some of this scholarship has suggested that rural schools and educators may be complicit in this process as they devote extra attention and resources to the highest achieving students—those most likely to leave their rural communities after high school. Using data from a national multimethod study, we find mixed support for this hypoth…

  • The Impact of Migration on Poverty Concentrations in the United States, 1995-2000

    Open Access•Matt Foulkes, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2010•Cited by: 21•References: 21

    Poverty is frequently conceptualized as an attribute of either people or places. Yet residential movement of poor people can redistribute poverty across places, affecting and reshaping the spatial concentration of economic disadvantage. In this article, we utilize 1995 to 2000 county-to-county migration data from the 2000 United States decennial census to explore how differential migration rates of the poor and nonpoor affect local incidence of p…

  • Food Deserts and Overweight Schoolchildren

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Eric B Jensen et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2009•Cited by: 21•References: 42

    The concept of the food desert, an area with limited access to retail food stores, has increasingly been used within social scientific and public health research to explore the dimensions of spatial inequality and community well-being. While research has demonstrated that food deserts are frequently characterized by higher levels of poverty and food insecurity, there has been relatively little research examining the relationship between food dese…

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty-First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings

    Open Access•I Carrillo, Katrina Quisumbing King et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2021•Cited by: 18•References: 90

    This article, which also serves as the introduction for this special guest-edited issue, examines the history of Rural Sociology's scholarly engagement with rurality, race, and ethnicity. We examine the historical patterns of how Rural Sociology has addressed race and ethnicity, and then present results from a meta-analysis of empirical articles published between 1971 and 2020. Over time, the methodological approaches and scholarly focus of artic…

  • The emergence and framing of farm-to-school initiatives

    Open Access•Jessica Bagdonis, Jessica M Bagdonis et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2008•Cited by: 18•References: 16

  • Population deconcentration in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation

    Open Access•David L Brown, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2002•Cited by: 18•References: 8

  • Rurality and Crises of Democracy

    Open Access•K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2021•Cited by: 16•References: 65

    This article discusses the growing political divide in the United States and how ideological polarization has increasingly assumed spatial dimensions, as rural areas have become strongly associated with Republican support, and urban areas have become associated with strong Democratic support. In the context of the recent Trump administration, marked not only by authoritarian tendencies, ethno-nationalism, and hostility towards democratic institut…

  • Rural Education As Rural Development

    K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 28

    Despite the significant proportions of rural Americans, schools, and public school students situated in the geographic peripheries of an increasingly urbanizing country, rural education in the United States has consistently occupied both scholarly and policy peripheries. This is to the detriment of rural America, especially to the extent that public policy and educational practice may work at cross-purposes with the vitality and well-being of rur…

  • Social Capital and Grassroots Development

    K A Schafft, David L Brown•ARTICLE•Social Problems•2000•Cited by: 15•References: 22

    This study investigates the determinants of Roma local minority self-government (LMSG) capacity in Hungary and the role of Roma LMSGs in community development. Following the work of Woolcock (1998), Granovetter (1973; 1985) and others, we develop and operationalize a multi-dimensional framework of aggregate-level social capital to investigate factors associated with inter-municipal variation in LMSG capacity. We analyze data from a survey of Roma…

  • Reconceptualizing rapid energy resource development and its impacts

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Kathryn J Brasier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 30

  • Axiology and Anomaly in the Practice of Mixed Methods Work

    Open Access•Catharine Biddle, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Journal of Mixed Methods Research•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 24

    This article uses a Kuhnian framework to explain the adoption of the transformative paradigm in pragmatically informed mixed methods research. We argue that pragmatism represents a model of “normal science” among many mixed methods researchers and that Kuhn’s concept of the scientific anomaly provides an instructive metaphor for understanding what we interpret to be a failure of pragmatic mixed methods researchers to adequately account for the ax…

  • Place and Purpose in Public Education

    K A Schafft, Catharine Biddle•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 8

    Local control of schooling has been considered a defining feature of the American school system; however, in the past several decades public schooling has also increasingly been subject to the influence of extralocal institutional mandates that encourage curricular and organizational standardization. We conducted a content analysis of 480 school district mission statements from Pennsylvania to understand the relationships between school and place…

  • A decade of Marcellus Shale

    Open Access•Jeffrey Jacquet, Anne N Junod et al.•ARTICLE•The Extractive Industries and…•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 37

  • Roma political agency and spaces of social inclusion and exclusion

    K A Schafft, Roland Ferkovics•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    This paper examines the perspectives of local Roma leaders regarding the ongoing impacts, contradictions and civic outcomes of Hungary's 1993 Act 77 on the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities, legislation that created the framework for minority self-governance among Hungary's thirteen recognized minority groups. We use interview data with Roma self-government leaders to examine the perceptions and experiences of Roma leaders regarding nation…

  • Make My Day, Shoot a Teacher’

    Erin Mchenry‐sorber, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in class-situated values over education philosophy and financing. These differences can produce contentious political environments, vastly complexifying local decision-making, including school district policy-making, budgeting, and teacher contract negotiations. Through an exemplar case study, we examine …

  • The 'Invisible Hand

    Open Access•Alan Christopher Finlayson, Thomas A Lyson et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2005•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    The dominant economic discourse of the industrialized world - in political, academic, and popular terms - is neoclassical economics. A founding proposition is that an 'invisible hand' aggregates individual decisions driven by rational self-interest into socially optimal outcomes. We draw upon economics as well as the sociology and philosophy of science to question this fundamental proposition and investigate neoclassical economic theory's dominan…

  • A “Resource Curse” for Education

    Matthew Gardner Kelly, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 12

    In Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region, the recent shale gas boom profoundly reshaped communities, local institutions, and living circumstances for many residents. We focus on one particular local institution – the public school – to investigate the relationship between unconventional gas development and education funding. Using geographic information systems software, we identify unconventional drilling activity between 2007 and 2015 and link …

  • Turning Their Back on Kids”

    Open Access•J D Sherman, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 20

    Others have argued that smaller rural school environments have socially and academically protective factors that can have particularly positive outcomes for low-income youth These imaginations of rural schooling are broadly consistent with understandings of rural places as bucolic, communitarian spaces, perhaps isolated from the wider world but with unique stocks of social capital

  • Social Exclusion, Ethnic Political Mobilization, and Roma Minority Self-Governance in Hungary

    Emilia Molnár, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•East Central Europe•2003•Cited by: 2

  • Mobilities, Fixities and Stabilities in Rural Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Boomtowns

    Open Access•Ian Burfoot‐rochford, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Sociologia Ruralis•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    The mobilities 'turn' within human geography and the social sciences has drawn attention to the ways in which social connections and interactions variously transcend, undo and reconfigure spatial boundaries and identities. In this study we utilise mobilities theory to analyse Marcellus Shale gas boomtown growth in Pennsylvania and the experiences of local residents living in these boomtown areas. We use data from interviews conducted in two rural…

  • Can Anyone Hear Us

    Deepa naraya, Deepa Narayan-Parker et al.•BOOK•Can anyone hear us?•2000

    No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Can Anyone Hear Us?Voices of the PoorAuthors/Editors: Deepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-SchulteDeepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-Schultehttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-1952-1601-6SectionsAboutPDF (2.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This book is the first in a three-part series, ab…

  • Social Capital and Grassroots Development

    K A Schafft, David L Brown•ARTICLE•Social Problems•2000•Cited by: 15•References: 22

    This study investigates the determinants of Roma local minority self-government (LMSG) capacity in Hungary and the role of Roma LMSGs in community development. Following the work of Woolcock (1998), Granovetter (1973; 1985) and others, we develop and operationalize a multi-dimensional framework of aggregate-level social capital to investigate factors associated with inter-municipal variation in LMSG capacity. We analyze data from a survey of Roma…

  • Population deconcentration in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation

    Open Access•David L Brown, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2002•Cited by: 18•References: 8

  • Social Exclusion, Ethnic Political Mobilization, and Roma Minority Self-Governance in Hungary

    Emilia Molnár, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•East Central Europe•2003•Cited by: 2

  • The 'Invisible Hand

    Open Access•Alan Christopher Finlayson, Thomas A Lyson et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2005•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    The dominant economic discourse of the industrialized world - in political, academic, and popular terms - is neoclassical economics. A founding proposition is that an 'invisible hand' aggregates individual decisions driven by rational self-interest into socially optimal outcomes. We draw upon economics as well as the sociology and philosophy of science to question this fundamental proposition and investigate neoclassical economic theory's dominan…

  • Poverty, Residential Mobility, and Student Transiency within a Rural New York School District

    Open Access•K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2006•Cited by: 32•References: 12

    Human capital models assume residential mobility is both voluntary and opportunity-driven. Residential mobility of low income households, however, often does not fit these assumptions. Often characterized by short-distance, high frequency movement, poverty-related mobility may only deepen the social and economic instability that precipitated the movement in the first place. Children may be particularly affected because of disrupted social and aca…

  • The emergence and framing of farm-to-school initiatives

    Open Access•Jessica Bagdonis, Jessica M Bagdonis et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2008•Cited by: 18•References: 16

  • Food Deserts and Overweight Schoolchildren

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Eric B Jensen et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2009•Cited by: 21•References: 42

    The concept of the food desert, an area with limited access to retail food stores, has increasingly been used within social scientific and public health research to explore the dimensions of spatial inequality and community well-being. While research has demonstrated that food deserts are frequently characterized by higher levels of poverty and food insecurity, there has been relatively little research examining the relationship between food dese…

  • The Impact of Migration on Poverty Concentrations in the United States, 1995-2000

    Open Access•Matt Foulkes, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2010•Cited by: 21•References: 21

    Poverty is frequently conceptualized as an attribute of either people or places. Yet residential movement of poor people can redistribute poverty across places, affecting and reshaping the spatial concentration of economic disadvantage. In this article, we utilize 1995 to 2000 county-to-county migration data from the 2000 United States decennial census to explore how differential migration rates of the poor and nonpoor affect local incidence of p…

  • Moonshine, Mountaineers, and Modernity

    E K Peine, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Journal of Appalachian Studies•2012

    We would like to thank Dr. James Overholt for his help in contacting interview subjects involved in the moonshine trade. Without his enthusiastic support, and without the generous participation of the people of Cocke County, this project would never have been possible. Appalachia is a region richly mythologized in U.S. culture, and in many ways, the moonshiner represents the pinnacle of this imaginary Appalachia. Using Cocke County, Tennessee, as…

  • Place and Purpose in Public Education

    K A Schafft, Catharine Biddle•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 8

    Local control of schooling has been considered a defining feature of the American school system; however, in the past several decades public schooling has also increasingly been subject to the influence of extralocal institutional mandates that encourage curricular and organizational standardization. We conducted a content analysis of 480 school district mission statements from Pennsylvania to understand the relationships between school and place…

  • The Relationship between Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania and Local Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Yetkin Borlu et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2013•Cited by: 72•References: 25

    Recent advances in gas and oil drilling technology have led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. In Pennsylvania's Marcellus gas fields, the recent development of unconventional shale gas resources has not been without controversy. It has been variously framed as a major opportunity for economic revitalization at the local and regional levels and energy independence at the na…

  • Axiology and Anomaly in the Practice of Mixed Methods Work

    Open Access•Catharine Biddle, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Journal of Mixed Methods Research•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 24

    This article uses a Kuhnian framework to explain the adoption of the transformative paradigm in pragmatically informed mixed methods research. We argue that pragmatism represents a model of “normal science” among many mixed methods researchers and that Kuhn’s concept of the scientific anomaly provides an instructive metaphor for understanding what we interpret to be a failure of pragmatic mixed methods researchers to adequately account for the ax…

  • Make My Day, Shoot a Teacher’

    Erin Mchenry‐sorber, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in class-situated values over education philosophy and financing. These differences can produce contentious political environments, vastly complexifying local decision-making, including school district policy-making, budgeting, and teacher contract negotiations. Through an exemplar case study, we examine …

  • Local Impacts of Unconventional Gas Development within Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Region

    K A Schafft, Leland Glenna et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2014•Cited by: 30•References: 6

    Using survey and interview data gathered from educators and educational administrators, we investigate school and community impacts of unconventional gas extraction within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region. Respondents in areas with high levels of drilling are significantly more likely to perceive the effects of local economic gains, but also report increased inequality, heightened vulnerability of disadvantaged community members, and pronoun…

  • School and Community Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region, and the Dilemmas of Educational Leadership in Gasfield Boomtowns

    K A Schafft, Catharine Biddle•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2014•References: 12

    Innovations associated with gas and oil drilling technology, including new hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques, have recently led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. The Marcellus Shale play, one of the world's largest gas-bearing shale formations, lies beneath approximately two-thirds of Pennsylvania, including some of the state's most economically laggi…

  • Educational Sorting and Residential Aspirations Among Rural High School Students

    Open Access•Robert A Petrin, K A Schafft et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2014•Cited by: 23•References: 24

    An extended body of research has documented the outmigration of the “best and brightest” youth from rural areas. Some of this scholarship has suggested that rural schools and educators may be complicit in this process as they devote extra attention and resources to the highest achieving students—those most likely to leave their rural communities after high school. Using data from a national multimethod study, we find mixed support for this hypoth…

  • Opportunity, Ambivalence, and Youth Perspectives on Community Change in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region

    K A Schafft, Kai Schafft et al.•ARTICLE•Human Organization•2015

    Across vast swaths of mostly rural Pennsylvania, dramatic social, economic, and environmental transformations have occurred in the last five years as these regions have experienced a new natural resource boom in the form of unconventional natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale formation. While Pennsylvania's former Governor, Tom Corbett, and shale industry advocates hailed these developments as an economic godsend for Pennsylvania, other…

  • Rural Education As Rural Development

    K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 28

    Despite the significant proportions of rural Americans, schools, and public school students situated in the geographic peripheries of an increasingly urbanizing country, rural education in the United States has consistently occupied both scholarly and policy peripheries. This is to the detriment of rural America, especially to the extent that public policy and educational practice may work at cross-purposes with the vitality and well-being of rur…

  • School Choice, Racial Segregation, and Poverty Concentration

    Open Access•Stephen Kotok, Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Policy•2017

    This article examines how student movements between traditional public schools (TPSs) and charters—both brick and mortar and cyber—may be associated with both racial isolation and poverty concentration. Using student-level data from the universe of Pennsylvania public schools, this study builds upon previous research by specifically examining student transfers into charter schools, disaggregating findings by geography. We find that, on average, t…

  • A decade of Marcellus Shale

    Open Access•Jeffrey Jacquet, Anne N Junod et al.•ARTICLE•The Extractive Industries and…•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 37

  • Reconceptualizing rapid energy resource development and its impacts

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Kathryn J Brasier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 30

  • Mobilities, Fixities and Stabilities in Rural Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Boomtowns

    Open Access•Ian Burfoot‐rochford, K A Schafft•ARTICLE•Sociologia Ruralis•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    The mobilities 'turn' within human geography and the social sciences has drawn attention to the ways in which social connections and interactions variously transcend, undo and reconfigure spatial boundaries and identities. In this study we utilise mobilities theory to analyse Marcellus Shale gas boomtown growth in Pennsylvania and the experiences of local residents living in these boomtown areas. We use data from interviews conducted in two rural…

  • Busted amidst the Boom

    Open Access•K A Schafft, Erin Mchenry‐sorber et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•2018•Cited by: 23•References: 47

    In the middle of the first decade of this century new technological innovations enabled the extraction of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing within gas-bearing shale and other unconventional energy reserves. As a consequence, many places, often in economically lagging rural areas, saw dramatic change as they were socially and economically transformed through rapid natural resource development. Although scholarship on so-called bo…

  • Roma political agency and spaces of social inclusion and exclusion

    K A Schafft, Roland Ferkovics•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    This paper examines the perspectives of local Roma leaders regarding the ongoing impacts, contradictions and civic outcomes of Hungary's 1993 Act 77 on the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities, legislation that created the framework for minority self-governance among Hungary's thirteen recognized minority groups. We use interview data with Roma self-government leaders to examine the perceptions and experiences of Roma leaders regarding nation…

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