Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and ChangeThomas R. Ford |
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... marriage configuration is more typical than not of rural life , though its normative hold on the sexes is less strong in rural - nonfarm areas . The small - town woman marries earlier than her rural - farm counterpart ; however , her ...
... marriage configuration is more typical than not of rural life , though its normative hold on the sexes is less strong in rural - nonfarm areas . The small - town woman marries earlier than her rural - farm counterpart ; however , her ...
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... marriage ; the continued popularity of marriage ; and the maintenance of the principal family functions in reproduction , in providing the basic socioemotional context for the release of tensions , in the stabilization of adult ...
... marriage ; the continued popularity of marriage ; and the maintenance of the principal family functions in reproduction , in providing the basic socioemotional context for the release of tensions , in the stabilization of adult ...
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... Marriage , and Social Change . Lexington , Mass .: D. C. Heath . Committee for Economic Development . 1966. Modernizing Local Government . Committee for Economic Development , New York . Copp , James H. , ed . 1964. Our Changing Rural ...
... Marriage , and Social Change . Lexington , Mass .: D. C. Heath . Committee for Economic Development . 1966. Modernizing Local Government . Committee for Economic Development , New York . Copp , James H. , ed . 1964. Our Changing Rural ...
Contents
Quality and Conflicts in Land | 19 |
People on the Land | 37 |
The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan | 55 |
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