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Rural Sociology

（《農村社會學》）

的最新目錄及摘要

Rural Sociology90(1), 2025

Rural Sociology（《農村社會學》）是美國農村社會學會的官方雜志，致力于推進農村社會學及相關研究領域的發展，以應對影響農村人口與農村地區的基礎性問題和新興的社會問題。作為一個前沿的研究平臺，該刊歡迎來自世界各地的基于社會學視角的投稿，這些稿件的研究主題包括地方和全球系統對農村人口與地區的影響、農村社區復興、農村人口變動、農村貧困、自然資源分配、環境/食品和農業系統等。

Rural Sociology 最新一期(Volume 90, Issue 1, March 2025)的內容，共計8篇文章，詳情如下。

原版目錄

Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post-COVID-19 Pandemic（《新冠疫情后華盛頓州基蒂塔斯縣的舒適移民與社區福祉》）

Alexander Theophilus, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, Courtney Flint, Emma Epperson

Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster（《尋找更高的立足點：災害影響下的流域遷移與文化管理》 ）

Brandon Folse, Nicholas Theis, Daniel Shtob

Eco-Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World（《生態尊重與人口減少：農村世界人口挑戰的視角拓展》）

Germán Jaraíz-Arroyo, Esteban Ruíz-Ballesteros, María Cristina Gálvez García

How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage（《單身母親如何評估和應對農村邊緣地區的生活？對社會和空間劣勢相互作用的洞察》）

Sylvia Keim-Kl?rner, Josef Bernard, Anja Decker

Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intentions of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach（《從構型視角看大學生返鄉就業意向的多路徑影響因素：一種模糊集定性比較分析（fsQCA）方法》）

Jianmeng Ye, Yuangang Zhang, Yi Chen, Yanzi Zhang

Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults’ Intentions to Stay for Employment（《在非大都市地區確保未來：社區和家庭對年輕人留鄉就業意向的影響》）

Ha Young Choi, Karen Z. Kramer

Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Challenge the Rural Idyll? An Analysis of Frames on Ethnic Diversity in Relation to Rurality in the Flemish Written Press (Belgium)（《種族多樣性的增加挑戰了鄉村田園生活嗎？一項關于比利時佛蘭芒書面媒體中種族多樣性與鄉村關系的框架分析》）

Willemien Van Damme, Pascal De Decker, Hans Leinfelder

“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life（《“它在我們家一直開著”：警用掃描儀與農村日常生活》）

Michael Branch

Articles

Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

Alexander Theophilus, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, Courtney Flint, Emma Epperson

Amenity migration in the Intermountain West is a rapidly evolving process that has greatly impacted wellbeing in many rural communities over the past several decades. While the impacts of amenity migration have been discussed through both individual community case studies and cross-community comparative analysis, there is an ongoing need for research that continues to build upon our understanding of amenity migration's effects on individual and community wellbeing. Remote and hybrid work opportunities, expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, have allowed for an increasing number of people to live part or full-time in highly desirable rural locations, particularly those proximate to larger urban areas. In this paper, we discuss the historical and current trends of amenity migration in Kittitas County, proximate to Seattle, Washington, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains. Drawing upon perspectives shared in 80 interviews with key informants and community members about community wellbeing in three towns, we discuss the implications of amenity migration for the perceived quality of life of both longer-term residents and newer community members. Additionally, the setting and scope of this research allows for comparison between high-amenity rural communities with larger recreation economies, and adjacent less—amenity-based rural communities. Findings indicate that amenity migration continues to evolve and impact community wellbeing, primarily via community cultural changes and socioeconomic and housing inequality. However, there are nuanced geographical and longitudinal differences in the impacts of amenity migration. Additionally, participants perceived an increase in amenity migration patterns and impacts in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. To conclude, we discuss ongoing and potential initiatives that may help support community wellbeing, as well as possibilities for further improvements in policy and planning to equitably increase the quality of life for all residents.

Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster

Brandon Folse, Nicholas Theis, Daniel Shtob

Due to land loss from sea level rise, subsidence, and hurricanes, coastal Louisiana residents face decisions about whether and how to move to live more securely. These (seemingly) biophysical processes are compounded by sociocultural evolution and technological progress, which often make rural people and communities feel devalued. Using these observations as a background, we ask: how do disaster-related migration strategies correspond to broader migration trends nationally and globally? And, how do local, place-based cultures influence and permeate these migration decisions and strategies? We rely on 32 interviews with those who are from southeastern Louisiana and are connected to local seafood industries. Using the Intracoastal Canal as a line of risk demarcation, respondents were recruited as either stayers (those residing south of the canal) or migrants (those who moved north of the canal or elsewhere). We find that within both groups, many individuals and/or their family members participate in watershed migration and cultural curation, practices of moving up the bayou toward safer ground and bringing place-based practices along with this movement. We conclude by highlighting how the non-linear experiences of migrants are part of larger historical narratives and practices of change, migration, and cultural and physical survival.

Eco-Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World

Germán Jaraíz-Arroyo, Esteban Ruíz-Ballesteros, María Cristina Gálvez García

The dynamics of contemporary rural depopulation have been explained and addressed mainly as a result of structural transformations brought about by economic globalization. The influence of cultural/relational aspects has been less present in the scientific literature, where much of the analysis has been concerned with questions such as the effect of bond and attachment to the local. In connection with this matter, our paper explores how the interactions between social capital and community resilience dynamics affect decisions to leave or stay. The paper finds that the link between social capital and local resilience strategies is mediated by interdependent pattern. To understand how these connections are shaped and operate, we propose the notion of eco-esteem, understanding it as a pattern of linkages with the socio-ecosystem, determined by relationships and practices, which conditions people's attitudes, behaviors, expectations and, ultimately, their decisions to stay in or leave the rural world. To demonstrate the usefulness of this theoretical-methodological perspective, we present a qualitative ethnographic case study in two municipalities in Extremadura (Spain), which are similar in their socio-demographic characteristics, but which experience significantly different depopulation dynamics.

How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage

Sylvia Keim-Kl?rner, Josef Bernard, Anja Decker

When social and spatial disadvantages meet, are they doubled? Empirical studies have convincingly demonstrated that disadvantages tend to accumulate. Our paper advances this scholarship by focusing on the under-researched issue of social positions, subjective perspectives, and agency among single mothers in rural peripheries characterized by weak labor markets and accessibility issues. Drawing from problem-centered interviews conducted in eastern Germany and Czechia, we investigate how single mothers perceive and evaluate the local and regional opportunities available to them. Additionally, we employ the concept of coping to analyze how they navigate spatial constraints. Our findings reveal that while our respondents encounter various spatial limitations and some feel ensnared in cycles of accumulating disadvantages, they often view these constraints as balanced or outweighed by the advantages of their living environment. Our in-depth analysis identifies room to maneuver in coping with spatial disadvantages and sheds light on the costs and risks associated with different coping strategies. In conclusion, we argue that incorporating a perspective on agency and subjectivity into research on inequalities allows for a nuanced understanding of the interrelation of social and spatial disadvantages.

Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach

Jianmeng Ye, Yuangang Zhang, Yi Chen, Yanzi Zhang

Rural areas in China are undergoing significant transformations and development phases. This study employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on quantitative data from a survey of 168 college students to investigate the configurations of factors leading to a high willingness to return to their hometowns for employment. The study focuses on their intentions to return as the dependent variable, with independent variables including rural sentiment, social compatibility, risk tolerance, family support, and life satisfaction. The findings reveal nine distinct pathways that meet the criteria of perfect consistency (1.0) and demonstrate high explanatory power (coverage of 89.19%). These pathways are categorized into four types based on underlying motivations: emotion-oriented, value-oriented, responsibility-oriented, and social-oriented. The results offer theoretical and practical insights into encouraging talent return in rural China, emphasizing the importance of a multifaceted approach that incorporates emotional, social, and familial considerations. The study's findings are contextualized within the Chinese socioeconomic environment, offering valuable insights into rural–urban dynamics in China. These findings could also be applied to other countries and regions with similar urban–rural dynamics and immigration patterns.

Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults’ Intentions to Stay for Employment

Ha Young Choi, Karen Z. Kramer

This study examines how community perceptions, family-related factors, and other psychosocial factors collectively shape young adults' intentions to stay in their nonmetropolitan communities for employment. Research on nonmetropolitan populations' intentions to stay has increasingly highlighted community factors, including perceptions of the community and social connections. However, perceptions of the community have often been studied linearly and researchers have overlooked the multidimensional nature of employment decisions. Thus, this study conducted a latent profile analysis of 513 nonmetropolitan young adults and identified four distinct profiles: positive perceptions of social and professional characteristics (38.79%), positive perceptions of overall community characteristics (35.28%), positive perceptions of long-term life planning characteristics (15.79%), and negative perceptions of overall community characteristics (10.14%). Path analyses indicated that community perception profiles, characterized by more positive perceptions of family-friendliness and enjoyment of an active social and professional life, are associated with greater intention to obtain or retain local employment in a nonmetropolitan community. The findings are mediated by the effects of embeddedness within a community and organization. Family support also plays a crucial role in job seekers' intentions to stay for employment. They also value their own perceptions of fewer barriers to staying in nonmetropolitan organizations. These findings provide policy implications for attracting and retaining young nonmetropolitan workers by aligning their aspirations with community, work, and social characteristics.

Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Challenge the Rural Idyll? An Analysis of Frames on Ethnic Diversity in Relation to Rurality in the Flemish Written Press (Belgium)

Willemien Van Damme, Pascal De Decker, Hans Leinfelder

The social construction of rurality remains a collective fantasy of a safe, green, ethnically homogeneous environment. This fantasy, called “the rural idyll,” still dominates the way in which people give meaning to their lives, the lives of others, and the places where they live. This idyll is based on an interrelated urban/ethnic diverse versus rural/white dichotomy, even as rural areas are in fact becoming more ethnically diverse. The question of how ethnic diversity is understood, in traditional media, through the fantasy of the rural idyll is central to this paper. Drawing on recurring stories in 450 newspaper articles in the Flemish written press covering rural ethnic diversity, we identify four different ideal-type frames: growing ethnic diversity as a (1) threat to the rural idyll, (2) confirmation of the rural idyll, (3) the consequence of rural deprivation, and (4) the solution to rural deprivation. Our analysis shows that a large proportion of the newspaper articles use “ethnic diversity as a threat to the rural idyll.” This connects with the long-standing anti-urban discourse in Flanders (Belgium). Nevertheless, the presence and emergence of other frames indicate that this discourse does not remain not unchallenged.

“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life

Michael Branch

Police radio scanners are a common feature of homes in rural Upstate New York, but little attention has been given to how their use affects local communities. Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents of a small town in the Adirondack Park, I examine how the scanner becomes a key factor in structuring experiences of daily life. A common feature of rural communities, the scanner positions policing at the center of everyday life, shapes perceptions of criminality and policing for those listening, and may have significant consequences for vulnerable residents. The scanner provides residents with the opportunity to develop informal networks of care, yet simultaneously limits the ability of some residents to access community and emergency services. I argue that the scanner comes to mediate contradictory structures for the town and blends police power and presence with the experience of everyday rural social life as part of broader processes that delineate, justify, and legitimize boundaries of social difference. Bridging scholarship on rural communities and police technology, this project advances a framework to understand how the scanner shapes and structures access to symbolic capital vis-a-vis the state and logics of policing in the name of community safety.

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