Research Catalog

Title

Small towns in multilevel society / Frank W. Young.

Author

Young, Frank W. (Frank Wilbur), 1928-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xiv, 160 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Communities
• Community organization > New York (State) > Case studies
• Community development > New York (State) > Case studies
• Rural development > New York (State) > Case studies
• Local government > New York (State)
• Communities
• Community development
• Community organization
• Local government
• Rural development
• Gemeindeverwaltung
• Sozialstruktur
• New York (State)
• New York Staat

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-155) and index.

Contents

ch. 1. The comparative study of small communities: The perspective of sociological structuralism ; Central place/ecological studies ; Political economy and populism ; Making a place for structural theory -- ch. 2. A structural theory of community: The Polanyi principle ; Community and environment ; The dimensions of community structure ; The structural explanation of welfare ; A fundamental issue -- ch. 3. Ecology and history of Southern Tier communities: The town as a unit of analysis ; Changes in the population of towns 1950-1990 ; The ecology of manufacturing, housing and health ; History ; The trouble with ecological analysis -- ch. 4. The structural dimensions of communities: The quest for dimensions of community structure ; A factor analysis of the data for New York towns ; Structural profiles ; The ecological context of the structural dimensions -- ch. 5. Town governance: The institutions of government in New York towns ; The structure of town government ; Town finance ; Does structure shape practices? -- ch. 6. Transaction organization: Manufacturing and business in the Southern Tier ; Development efforts ; Housing and health organization -- ch. 7. Structure and welfare: Indicators of average welfare ; Test of the structural reinforcement hypothesis ; What about causation at the individual level? ; Interventions -- ch. 8. Small towns and great changes: Warren's displacement hypothesis ; Bureaucratic dependency ; A cross-system hypothesis ; The fundamental cause of structural change ; ch. 9. The perspective of sociological structuralism: Sectoral versus systemic structuralism ; Making structure work ; Are towns democratic and autonomous? -- Appendix: The informant survey and comparative community research.

ISBN

• 076181423X
• 9780761814238
• 0761814248
• 9780761814245

LCCN

99028939

OCLC

• ocm41211537
• 41211537
• SCSB-8803420

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library