R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Types Of Rural Communities, Robert D. Putnam, University Of British Columbia Press

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Rural community invests in a large internet pipeline, which represents latent capital unless used to develop other forms of capital (education, trades simulation training, cultural sharing, etc. ) Network of people, who you know, what connections you have; how these aid in personal development (ex. Another measure could be to survey members on how many key residents they know personally (ex. Resour(cid:272)e ge(cid:374)erator approa(cid:272)h: how (cid:373)a(cid:374)y (cid:862)useful(cid:863) people do you k(cid:374)ow: external and internal (regional connections versus connections within the community) Did they go on picnics with friends?: also looked at elks and lions social clubs. May have been measuring the wrong things by looking at old-fashioned groups. What caused this decline: people becoming busier, fear surrounding cold war, development of phone technology made non-face-to-face communication easier and more accessible, suburbanization. Big houses and bigger properties, makes it easier to stay cooped up indoors, more private lifestyles.