The Dying Community
Edited by Art Gallaher, Jr. and Harland Padfield
This book is a thorough exploration of the decline of the little community in the face of urbanization, industrialization, and bureaucratization. Developing a conceptual and theoretical framework for examining community decline and dissolution, the book looks at the relationships between the dying community and its natural resource base, the role of outside political authority, and the social and demographical processes associated with community decline.
1980. 320 pp., 1 map, 1 figure, 2 tables, notes, references, index, 6 x 9
Contributors: William Y. Adams, Alvin L. Bertrand, Marion Clawson, Art Gallaher Jr., Hannah Levin, David B. Looff, Harland Padfield, Diane Quantic, Wayne Rohrer, Arthur J. Vidich, Mary Wylie
- Theory of the Dying Community
Art Gallaher, Jr. and Harland Padfield - The Dead Community: Perspectives from the Past
William Y. Adams - The Dying Community: The Natural Resource Base
Marion Clawson - Dependence on External Authority and the Decline of Community
Art Gallaher, Jr. - Revolutions in Community Structure
Arthur J. Vidich - Social and Demographic Processes of Declining Nonmetropolitan Communities in the Middle West
Wayne Rohrer and Diane Quantic - The Expendable Rural Community and the Denial of Powerlessness
Harland Padfield - Ethnic and Social Class Minorities in the Dying Small Community
Alvin L. Bertrand - Growing Up in a Dying Community
David H. Looff - The Dying Community as a Human Habitat for the Elderly
Mary Wylie - The Struggle for Community Can Create Community
Hannah Levin