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Will Rural Areas Still Matter in the 21st Century? (or) Can Rural Sociology Remain Relevant? 1
Author(s) -
Singelmann Joachim
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1996.tb00614.x
Subject(s) - rural sociology , urbanization , scope (computer science) , rural history , rural area , restructuring , rural economics , economic growth , rural settlement , work (physics) , political science , agriculture , development economics , sociology , economic geography , geography , rural development , economics , mechanical engineering , archaeology , engineering , computer science , law , programming language
Despite demographic and economic trends away from rural societies and from agriculture, a consideration of rural areas remains important for two reasons. First, a substantial number of people will continue to live and work in rural areas, even as urbanization spreads across the world. Second, social processes have different consequences in urban and rural areas. Rural sociology must make global restructuring a key concern, it must provide information about social and economic processes in rural and urban areas, and its geographical scope must become truly international.