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 …

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 …

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' …

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 …

Recent migrants to the rural West increasingly cite both physical and social environment
amenities as reasons why they moved. Jobrelated reasons are cited by only about 30 …

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) …

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 …

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

Many rural communities in the Rocky Mountain West with high amenity values have
experienced substantial in‐migration in the 1990s. Popular media accounts and some social …

Evidence concerning the residence-environmental concern relationship is ambiguous:
Some studies report substantial rural-urban differences, while others report negligible …