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Continuity and Change in Place Stratification: Spatial Inequality and Middle-Range Territorial Units.
- Source :
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Rural Sociology . Mar2004, Vol. 69 Issue 1, p1-30. 30p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Sociologists have produced large, well-known literatures on inequality across geographic territory at two ends of the spatial scale continuum, within the city and across nation-states. In this paper, I discuss a different scale of focus, subnational stratification processes across middlerange spatial units, those between the city and nation-state. While characterizing much contemporary rural sociological research, this approach to spatial inequality does not tend to be seen as a coherent tradition that cross-cuts substantive areas. First, I discuss why attention to subnational inequality, rural regions, and middle-range spatial units are important to social science understanding of stratification processes. Second, I provide an overview of contemporary research traditions in rural sociology which, taken together, form a distinct and innovative approach to spatial inequality. Third, I draw from my own work to explain how factors affecting socioeconomic inequalities across middle-range territorial units may be conceptualized and provide two sets of empirical examples. Finally, I discuss what should be done in terms of furthering rural sociology's regional approach to spatial inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00360112
- Volume :
- 69
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Rural Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12480291
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1526/003601104322919883