The meaning of rurality from the person‐on‐the‐street perspective was explored using data
from a statewide telephone and mail survey of 1,241 Pennsylvania residents. Responses to …

Little is known about how rural people and places are viewed by the urban majority or the
extent to which these images are related to first‐hand contact with rurality. Data from a …

AN EVALUATION OF A COMPOSITE DEFINITION OF"" RURALITY" 1 Fern K. Willits and
Robert C. Bealer Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The …

Rural often is viewed as a setting for study rather than an object of study. Often a priori
definitions of rural are used; these definitions may bear little resemblance to residents' …

Research attempted to establish the existence or lack of existence of an identifiable" rural
culture" and to establish the presence or absence of an equivalence relationship between …

The status of “rural-urban differences” is examined for a sam-ple of westerıı Illinois heads of
households. Several conceptualizations of the rural-urban variable are indicated: 1) …

Rural/urban differences have been of major interest to rural sociologists for many years.
Commonly, rural sociologists take rural and urban to denote opposite ends of a conceptual …

A plea is made for the current need to consider carefully exactly what Is meant by the term"
rural". It is suggested that, while ambiguity in usage prevails, most understandings involve …

Elements of popular culture, as exemplified in television, radio, books, and magazines,
present images of rurality as wholesome and desirable. The extent to which these positive …

WHAT both well-being? ARE urban THE and This EFFECTS rural question sociology OF
URBANISM has stimulated and remained OR RURALITY the a development focus ON …