Residential Preferences and Rural Development Policy

Excerpts from the article: Since 1970, fewer people have been moving to the city, and increased numbers have been moving to rural (nonmetropolitan) America. For a few decades, however, population policy has focused on the problems of city growth, suburban expansion, and rural decline. Now, this new growth is bringing changes in rural land use, infrastructural development, social and medical services, and impacts on rural environment and ecology. In this article, we review these changes and discuss social, economic, and attitudinal explanations. Next, we analyze the role of residential preferences in decisions to migrate and the resulting policy implications

Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology October 17, 2008, Jacksonville, Florida: Ten Reasons Why University-Community Partnerships Turn Sour and Some Thoughts on How to Avoid Them

The theme of the 2008 meeting of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology was Engaging Sociology: Applied Sociology\u27s Past, Present, and Promise. The theme suggests that applied sociology has a past that is different from the parent discipline of sociology, and given how the history of sociology has come to be taught and remembered, that is an understandable suggestion. The argument of this paper, however, is that the discipline of sociology itself-as it is actually practiced today-originated mainly in applied work, in the work of nineteenth century social reformers whose contributions to the field ha ve been largely forgotten, people such as Francis Galton, Adolphe Quetelet, and Charles Booth. These, Targue, are the Founding Fathers of the discipline as !have practiced it for the past thirty-five years