Rural America in an Urban Society: Changing Spatial and Social Boundaries
Rural America in an Urban Society: Changing Spatial and Social Boundaries
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10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150208
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2011-01-01
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Brown, David L.
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Lichter, Daniel T.;Brown, David L.
这篇综述概述了新的城乡界面的几个关键方面，以及美国农村和城市生活日益渗透的问题。美国空间和社会边界的历史重合正在迅速变化。本审查强调(A)过去几十年来，城乡相互依存的巨大规模以及社区生活的许多方面的边界跨越、转移和模糊，。以及(B)城乡之间的对称而不是不对称的影响，即对空间类别的双向关系方面的影响。通过确定反映美国农村社会和经济多样性及其不断变化的空间和社会边界的10个共同概念，说明了这些一般性观点。在这里，我们强调象征性的和社会的边界、城市和农村社区和人民之间的区别以及确定边界的过程。将行为或组织形式置于城乡连续体(或大都市等级制度内)，或划出明显的城乡界限似乎越来越过时，甚至是有问题的。最后，我们呼吁对美国农村进行新的研究，并加强城乡学术在概念和经验上的整合，这在制度上仍然是脱节和隔离的。
This review outlines several key aspects of the new rural-urban interface and the growing interpenetration of American rural and urban life. The historical coincidence of spatial and social boundaries in America is changing rapidly. This review highlights (a) the enormous scale of rural-urban interdependence and boundary crossing, shifting, and blurring along many dimensions of community life over the past several decades,. and (b) the symmetrical rather than asymmetrical influences between urban and rural areas, i.e., on bidirectional relational aspects of spatial categories. These general points are illustrated by identifying 10 common conceptions of rural America that reflect both its social and economic diversity and its changing spatial and social boundaries. Here we emphasize symbolic and social boundaries the distinctions between urban and rural communities and people and the processes by which boundaries are engaged. Placing behaviors or organizational forms along a rural-urban continuum (or within a metropolitan hierarchy of places) or drawing sharp rural-urban distinctions seems increasingly obsolete or even problematic. We conclude with a call for new research on rural America and greater conceptual and empirical integration of urban and rural scholarship, which remains disconnected and segregated institutionally.