Abstract
Over the last 50 years, Haskell County, Kansas, has been the focus of three community studies. These studies have generated a wealth of information about community and social change within a rural setting. As a research process, community studies are usually guided by some theoretical perspective, although it is not uncommon for anomalies relative to the basic theoretical perspective to emerge from findings. In the latest study of Haskell County, Williams (1995) utilized Warren's "great change" paradigm as the initial theoretical framework. However, as anomalies to Warren's model were discovered, concepts drawn from the ecological, interactional, and critical theoretical approaches were considered as a means of gaining a broader perspective of the community. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a method of applying multiple theoretical approaches to interpret data derived through a community case study. The paper illustrates how such a technique can broaden our view and understanding of community.
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