Sonya Salamon
Biographic Data
| ID | 91863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonya Salamon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonya |
| FAMILY NAME | Salamon |
| SIGNATURE | SALAMON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Newcomers to Old Towns
From Hometown to Nontown
Regional suburbanization processes are transforming rural America socially and physically, threatening the uniqueness of small towns whose diversity is a national resource. This article reviews existing holistic descriptions of American rural communities since post-World War II by rural sociologists and anthropologists. Three new community case studies are briefly sketched-one 'agrarian' in slow decline, another 'postagrarian' where suburbanizati…
Blue-collar Kin and Community in the Small-town Midwest
This study examines community, kin networks, and family life linkages in a working-class small town. Specifically, household perceptions of community and kin networks obtained from an ethnographic study of a small Midwestern town are linked in a second interview study to residents' assessments of their personal well-being and the quality of their family relationships. The simple presence of kin nearby, however, is shown to be unrelated to either …
Mobile Home Park on the Prairie
Mobile home parks are an increasingly common form of residence for the rural poor. A rural central Illinois mobile home park and its residents seemingly possess features-a distinct territory, a homogeneous population, and a collectively held rural ideology-that foster formation of a sense of community. Other factors, however, some unique to this relatively new rural residential form, present physical and social barriers that challenge park reside…
The Transformation of Rural Life
The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois 1890-1990. JANE ADAMS. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994; 321 pp. Adams's book represents ten years of fieldwork and archival research in Union County, located in Southern Illinois. Here the author is historical ethnographer as well as friend and a nearby neighbor of those studied. The book provides a blueprint for delineating the lives of people who are literate and expect t…
Is Locally Led Conservation Planning Working? A Farm Town Case Study1
A qualitative case study of a rural Illinois community whose water supply has been compromised by a farm chemical is used to highlight the social, cultural, and economic factors that shape locally led planning efforts of a type now being advocated by natural resources governmental agencies. The paper answers the question: why did the central Illinois watershed planning effort craft a cooperative rather than a conflictual solution? Trust of and at…
American Dreams, Rural Realities
Prairie Patrimony
Territory Contested Through Property in a Midwestern Post-Agricultural Community1
Post-agricultural rural communities are emerging in the Midwest as a consequence of regional economic restructuring. Such communities are dominated by residents without economic or social links to those who operate surrounding farms. An ethnographic study of an Illinois hamlet provides a case study for probing the assertion that property issues, more than occupation or family background, shape social relations in post-agricultural communities. De…
The Persistence of Ethnicity
Journal Article The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana and Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest Get access The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana. By Kroes Rob. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. 161 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, indexes. $29.95.)Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in th…
Prairie Patrimony
"Prairie Patrimony" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
Share and Share Ali Ke
How families choose to transfer resources to the next generation is shown to be determined by goals and priorities derived from ethnocultural values. Two ethnically distinct Illinois farm communities, one of German-Catholic, the other of Yankee descent, having similar soils and geographic characteristics were investigated with: (1) an ethnographic field study; and (2) probated court documents over the century since settlement. Despite Germans eng…
Share and Share Alike
How families choose to transfer resources to the next generation is shown to be determined by goals and priorities derived from ethnocultural values. Two ethnically distinct Illinois farm communities, one of German-Catholic, the other of Yankee descent, having similar soils and geographic characteristics were investigated with: (1) an ethnographic field study; and (2) probated court documents over the century since settlement. Despite Germans eng…
Economic and Social Factors in Mate Selection
Karen Davis-Brown, Sonya Salamon, Catherine A. Surra, Economic and Social Factors in Mate Selection: An Ethnographic Analysis of an Agricultural Community, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 41-55
Family Factors Affecting the Intergenerational Succession to Farming
Farming has historically been dependent upon farmers' sons to maintain the occupation; the major succession mechanism being some form of father and son joint operation. This paper, using data drawn from field studies in two Illinois farm communities of Swedish and Yankee origin, compares such farming teams to show how family concerns create differing social contexts for the intergenerational succession process. Parental commitment to continuity a…
Inheritance and Social Organization Among Family Farmers
Comparative analysis of two French farming communities and two communities of Illinois grain farmers indicates that a similar range of variation in social organization is to be found at different levels of economic development. This is explained by the proposition that agriculturalists in all four communities share, as family farmers, a common set of fundamental concerns and a limited range of responses to them. Two contrasting French/American pa…
Land Ownership and the Position of Elderly in Farm Families
Land Ownership and Women's Power in a Midwestern Farming Community
Control over land, a scarce resource for farmers, is fbund to be the source of women's power in a community of central Illinois farm families. Data were obtained mainly from interviews with and participant observation of22 households of German extraction. Because men control the actual farming and distribution of what is produced, women generally cede power obtained by means of land ownership to husbands or male relatives. This shift of authority…
Family Bounds and Friendship Bonds
From Hometown to Nontown
Regional suburbanization processes are transforming rural America socially and physically, threatening the uniqueness of small towns whose diversity is a national resource. This article reviews existing holistic descriptions of American rural communities since post-World War II by rural sociologists and anthropologists. Three new community case studies are briefly sketched-one 'agrarian' in slow decline, another 'postagrarian' where suburbanizati…
Inheritance and Social Organization Among Family Farmers
Comparative analysis of two French farming communities and two communities of Illinois grain farmers indicates that a similar range of variation in social organization is to be found at different levels of economic development. This is explained by the proposition that agriculturalists in all four communities share, as family farmers, a common set of fundamental concerns and a limited range of responses to them. Two contrasting French/American pa…
Mobile Home Park on the Prairie
Mobile home parks are an increasingly common form of residence for the rural poor. A rural central Illinois mobile home park and its residents seemingly possess features-a distinct territory, a homogeneous population, and a collectively held rural ideology-that foster formation of a sense of community. Other factors, however, some unique to this relatively new rural residential form, present physical and social barriers that challenge park reside…
Territory Contested Through Property in a Midwestern Post-Agricultural Community1
Post-agricultural rural communities are emerging in the Midwest as a consequence of regional economic restructuring. Such communities are dominated by residents without economic or social links to those who operate surrounding farms. An ethnographic study of an Illinois hamlet provides a case study for probing the assertion that property issues, more than occupation or family background, shape social relations in post-agricultural communities. De…
Land Ownership and Women's Power in a Midwestern Farming Community
Control over land, a scarce resource for farmers, is fbund to be the source of women's power in a community of central Illinois farm families. Data were obtained mainly from interviews with and participant observation of22 households of German extraction. Because men control the actual farming and distribution of what is produced, women generally cede power obtained by means of land ownership to husbands or male relatives. This shift of authority…
Is Locally Led Conservation Planning Working? A Farm Town Case Study1
A qualitative case study of a rural Illinois community whose water supply has been compromised by a farm chemical is used to highlight the social, cultural, and economic factors that shape locally led planning efforts of a type now being advocated by natural resources governmental agencies. The paper answers the question: why did the central Illinois watershed planning effort craft a cooperative rather than a conflictual solution? Trust of and at…
Family Factors Affecting the Intergenerational Succession to Farming
Farming has historically been dependent upon farmers' sons to maintain the occupation; the major succession mechanism being some form of father and son joint operation. This paper, using data drawn from field studies in two Illinois farm communities of Swedish and Yankee origin, compares such farming teams to show how family concerns create differing social contexts for the intergenerational succession process. Parental commitment to continuity a…
Land Ownership and the Position of Elderly in Farm Families
Blue-collar Kin and Community in the Small-town Midwest
This study examines community, kin networks, and family life linkages in a working-class small town. Specifically, household perceptions of community and kin networks obtained from an ethnographic study of a small Midwestern town are linked in a second interview study to residents' assessments of their personal well-being and the quality of their family relationships. The simple presence of kin nearby, however, is shown to be unrelated to either …
Share and Share Ali Ke
How families choose to transfer resources to the next generation is shown to be determined by goals and priorities derived from ethnocultural values. Two ethnically distinct Illinois farm communities, one of German-Catholic, the other of Yankee descent, having similar soils and geographic characteristics were investigated with: (1) an ethnographic field study; and (2) probated court documents over the century since settlement. Despite Germans eng…
Economic and Social Factors in Mate Selection
Karen Davis-Brown, Sonya Salamon, Catherine A. Surra, Economic and Social Factors in Mate Selection: An Ethnographic Analysis of an Agricultural Community, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 41-55
Share and Share Alike
How families choose to transfer resources to the next generation is shown to be determined by goals and priorities derived from ethnocultural values. Two ethnically distinct Illinois farm communities, one of German-Catholic, the other of Yankee descent, having similar soils and geographic characteristics were investigated with: (1) an ethnographic field study; and (2) probated court documents over the century since settlement. Despite Germans eng…
Family Bounds and Friendship Bonds
Land Ownership and Women's Power in a Midwestern Farming Community
Control over land, a scarce resource for farmers, is fbund to be the source of women's power in a community of central Illinois farm families. Data were obtained mainly from interviews with and participant observation of22 households of German extraction. Because men control the actual farming and distribution of what is produced, women generally cede power obtained by means of land ownership to husbands or male relatives. This shift of authority…
Land Ownership and the Position of Elderly in Farm Families
Inheritance and Social Organization Among Family Farmers
Comparative analysis of two French farming communities and two communities of Illinois grain farmers indicates that a similar range of variation in social organization is to be found at different levels of economic development. This is explained by the proposition that agriculturalists in all four communities share, as family farmers, a common set of fundamental concerns and a limited range of responses to them. Two contrasting French/American pa…
Family Factors Affecting the Intergenerational Succession to Farming
Farming has historically been dependent upon farmers' sons to maintain the occupation; the major succession mechanism being some form of father and son joint operation. This paper, using data drawn from field studies in two Illinois farm communities of Swedish and Yankee origin, compares such farming teams to show how family concerns create differing social contexts for the intergenerational succession process. Parental commitment to continuity a…
Economic and Social Factors in Mate Selection
Karen Davis-Brown, Sonya Salamon, Catherine A. Surra, Economic and Social Factors in Mate Selection: An Ethnographic Analysis of an Agricultural Community, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 41-55
Share and Share Ali Ke
How families choose to transfer resources to the next generation is shown to be determined by goals and priorities derived from ethnocultural values. Two ethnically distinct Illinois farm communities, one of German-Catholic, the other of Yankee descent, having similar soils and geographic characteristics were investigated with: (1) an ethnographic field study; and (2) probated court documents over the century since settlement. Despite Germans eng…
Share and Share Alike
How families choose to transfer resources to the next generation is shown to be determined by goals and priorities derived from ethnocultural values. Two ethnically distinct Illinois farm communities, one of German-Catholic, the other of Yankee descent, having similar soils and geographic characteristics were investigated with: (1) an ethnographic field study; and (2) probated court documents over the century since settlement. Despite Germans eng…
Prairie Patrimony
"Prairie Patrimony" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
The Persistence of Ethnicity
Journal Article The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana and Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest Get access The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana. By Kroes Rob. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. 161 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, indexes. $29.95.)Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in th…
American Dreams, Rural Realities
Prairie Patrimony
Territory Contested Through Property in a Midwestern Post-Agricultural Community1
Post-agricultural rural communities are emerging in the Midwest as a consequence of regional economic restructuring. Such communities are dominated by residents without economic or social links to those who operate surrounding farms. An ethnographic study of an Illinois hamlet provides a case study for probing the assertion that property issues, more than occupation or family background, shape social relations in post-agricultural communities. De…
The Transformation of Rural Life
The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois 1890-1990. JANE ADAMS. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994; 321 pp. Adams's book represents ten years of fieldwork and archival research in Union County, located in Southern Illinois. Here the author is historical ethnographer as well as friend and a nearby neighbor of those studied. The book provides a blueprint for delineating the lives of people who are literate and expect t…
Is Locally Led Conservation Planning Working? A Farm Town Case Study1
A qualitative case study of a rural Illinois community whose water supply has been compromised by a farm chemical is used to highlight the social, cultural, and economic factors that shape locally led planning efforts of a type now being advocated by natural resources governmental agencies. The paper answers the question: why did the central Illinois watershed planning effort craft a cooperative rather than a conflictual solution? Trust of and at…
Mobile Home Park on the Prairie
Mobile home parks are an increasingly common form of residence for the rural poor. A rural central Illinois mobile home park and its residents seemingly possess features-a distinct territory, a homogeneous population, and a collectively held rural ideology-that foster formation of a sense of community. Other factors, however, some unique to this relatively new rural residential form, present physical and social barriers that challenge park reside…
Blue-collar Kin and Community in the Small-town Midwest
This study examines community, kin networks, and family life linkages in a working-class small town. Specifically, household perceptions of community and kin networks obtained from an ethnographic study of a small Midwestern town are linked in a second interview study to residents' assessments of their personal well-being and the quality of their family relationships. The simple presence of kin nearby, however, is shown to be unrelated to either …
Newcomers to Old Towns
From Hometown to Nontown
Regional suburbanization processes are transforming rural America socially and physically, threatening the uniqueness of small towns whose diversity is a national resource. This article reviews existing holistic descriptions of American rural communities since post-World War II by rural sociologists and anthropologists. Three new community case studies are briefly sketched-one 'agrarian' in slow decline, another 'postagrarian' where suburbanizati…
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