Principles of Rural-urban SociologyH. Holt, 1929 - 652 páginas Elaborates the matters in rural-urban knowledge. Lines out the fields overlapping rural-urban matters: sociology, social class, population, public health, urbanization and suicide, longevity and martality, birth rate and vitality, and intelligence. |
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Principles of Rural-urban Sociology Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin,Carle C. Zimmerman Vista completa - 1929 |
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Página 49 - Qualitative differences are described in five hypotheses : 1. The area of the contact system of a member of a rural community, as well as that of the rural community as a whole, is spatially more narrow and limited than the area of a member of an urban community and of the urban community as a whole. 2. ... Face to face relations occupy a less [sic] proportion of the whole interaction system of an urbanite than of a rural individual. 3. ... The interaction system of an urbanite is woven, to a greater...
Página 44 - The rural community is similar to calm water in a pail, and the urban community to boiling water in a kettle. In the rural areas, the members are more strongly attached to their social status; in the urban they are shifted from one status to another more often and more easily. Stability is the typical trait for the one; mobility is the typical for the...
Página 57 - Territorial, occupational, and other forms of social mobility of the population are comparatively less intensive. Normally the migration current carries more individuals from the country to the city. Less numerous contacts per man. Narrower area of the interaction system of its members and the whole aggregate. More prominent part is occupied by primary contacts. Predominance of personal and relatively durable relations. Comparative simplicity and sincerity of relations. " Man is interacted as a human...
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Página 424 - The most stubborn resistance (to Christianity) comes from the country people, the pagani, through their attachment to highly specialized minor local deities and to ancient customs intrenched by superstition. Their uncouthness renders the evangelization of them a somewhat dangerous matter. The word paganus means a dweller in the country, pagus. It has now been demonstrated that the hostility of the peasantry to Christianity gave the meaning of "pagan
Página 56 - Predominance of nature over anthropo-social environment. Direct relationship to nature. Open farms or small communities, "agriculturalism" and size of community are negatively correlated. In the same country and at the same period the density is lower than in urban community. Generally density and rurality are negatively correlated. Compared with urban populations the populations of rural communities are more homogeneous in racial and psychosocial traits.
Página 571 - ... country-born youth, in particular those who have in them the spirit of initiative. These are the ones the country and the farms can least afford to spare. By their going they often leave the country communities without competent leaders. And yet, because the country offers but meager opportunities and meager rewards for leadership, as compared with the modern city, one would hesitate to hold them back.
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Página 402 - ... of new things. As Sorokin and Zimmerman express it, ". . . . in the dynamics of cultural phenomena, whether they are good or bad, there always exists a powerful stream flowing from the city to the country. For diffusion over the country some time is necessary; for this reason, there exists a cultural lag of the country in regard to the city Correspondingly, there is also a lag of the city-culture in regard to that of the rural parts. But this 'from the country to the city...
Página 52 - ... that of a typical urbanite. The human beings, with whom he interacts, are concrete in body and flesh. He touches, smells, sees, and hears them. For this reason, they are, in a less degree, abstractions for him than for an urbanite. And the whole living personalities or Gestalts of those with whom he interacts are known more thoroughly to him than is the case of the urbanite.