Using data from three national surveys, this paper focuses on two questions pivotal to the
issue of rural-urban differences. First, de-fining rurality in terms of residence, do attitudinal …

Rural-urban differences are frequently discussed in a misleading way by contemporary
commentators on the American scene. It is true that real differences are declining, but many …

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) …

Preferences for living in less populated areas, when associated with expressed concern for
population size, is taken as a measure of antiurbanism. The usefulness of this interpretation …

Contemporary American rural society bears a limited resemblance to the rural society that
existed at the beginning of the century. By definition, rural society still involves people living …

In contrast to this concept of a homogeneous mass society, much of rural sociology in the
United States has proceeded on the assumption that important differences occur within …

THE investigation of the internal differentiation of urban population has been concerned
chiefly with economic rank and ethnic diversity, and with the differences which accompany …

Social scientists have noted that variations in residence—city, suburb, small town, open
country—tend to be associated with different patterns of behavior. The late Louis Wirth, who …

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 major purpose of this bulletin was to discuss the relationship of place of residence to
selected attitudinal and socio-economic characteristics. A theoretical model of social scale …