Rural Southern Community Research Articles

Women's reactions to job loss: The moral dilemmas of a plant closing

Blue collar women in declining industries tend to suffer permanent job loss as a result of dislocation, and women living in rural areas may be particularly vulnerable to extended unemployment. Relatively little is known about their experiences, in part because existing conceptual models do not adequately represent women's perspectives. In this study it is proposed that an ethic of care, as conceptualized by Carol Gilligan, shapes women's interpretations of the meaning of job dislocation. Gilligan's constructs are applied to a study of middle aged women who were dislocated when an apparel manufacturing plant in their rural Southern community closed unexpectedly. The focus is on three moral dilemmas and the opportunities for growth that occurred as a result of the crisis, as women reconstructed the meaning of the experience. The potential contributions of the ethic of care perspective to other studies of job loss is discussed.

Race, Social Class and Psychological Distress in Rural and Urban Southern Communities

Race, Social Class and Psychological Distress in Rural and Urban Southern Communities

Social consequences of early childbearing in a southern rural black community

Social consequences of early childbearing in a southern rural black community

Agricultural Change: Consequences for Southern Farms and Rural Communities.

Agricultural Change: Consequences for Southern Farms and Rural Communities.

Agricultural Change: Consequences for Southern Farms and Rural Communities. Edited by Joseph J. Molnar. Westview. 440 pp. $34.50

Agricultural Change: Consequences for Southern Farms and Rural Communities. Edited by Joseph J. Molnar. Westview. 440 pp. $34.50

Hypertension Control in a Rural Southern Community: Medical Care Process and Dropping Out

As part of the Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program, we conducted a medical record review within a private group practice to assess the interrelationships between patient characteristics, the process of medical care, and dropping out of care by hypertensive patients. Twenty-one percent of 641 randomly selected hypertensive patients did not have a clinic visit in the year before their record review date. Loss to follow-up varied from 31% for black men to 13% for white women. More intense prior contact with the medical care system was associated with remaining under medical care for all groups by race and sex. Black men were much less likely to have intense contact with the medical care system than the other groups. Physician aggressiveness in the use of drug therapy was associated with a nearly 40% reduction in the risk of being lost to follow-up. These findings suggest that patient characteristics and several factors that reflect the process of medical care are associated with dropping out of medical care by hypertensive patients.

Agricultural Change: Consequences for Southern Farms and Rural Communities

Agricultural Change: Consequences for Southern Farms and Rural Communities

Racial Crossover Voting and the Election of Black Officials

Little is known about the voting behavior of blacks aside from the observation that they are likely to vote in blocs for black candidates. In this study, we analyze fifty-two Atlanta area elections in which black and white candidates opposed each other. While Atlanta voters usually vote for candidates of their own race, this practice is more varied and less extensive than in the rural southern communities which others have analyzed. The extent to which voters support candidates not of their race varies greatly. Multivariate models can explain about 75 percent of the variance in black crossover voting and almost 60 percent of the variance in white crossovers. Incumbency and newspaper endorsements are especially important in attracting crossover votes. Three models, derived from differing expectations about the degree of prejudice, for estimating the share of votes cast for black candidates were tested. Ninety percent of the variance in election outcomes in Atlanta can be explained by the crossover model wh...

Are the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Goosey?

I was raised in a small southern rural community. I was 17 years old when my girlfriend confided to me that her mother was goosey. I was astonished that this reserved, kind, intelligent woman responded when startled or tickled by jumping in the air and shouting curse words that I had not thought possible for her to utter. To my further amazement, she responded to sudden loud commands by repeating the command while performing the order. If, for instance, she was suddenly told: Stir your tea with your finger! she would shout: Stir your tea with your finger! while stirring her tea with her finger. She appeared to be normal in every other way, but she could not prevent these remarkable responses when poked or startled. Her daughter was not goosey. My father told me of two goosey boys in the small town in North Carolina where he grew up.

Distribution of illnesses and its implications in a rural community.

This study is a continuation of a series of reports on the utilization of health care services in a southern rural community. In this investigation the distribution of the utilization of medical care services is assessed with respect to reported illnesses and related disabilities. It is found that whites report significantly more illnesses, disabilities and physicians visits than blacks. Furthermore, even when controlling for disability and illness, whites use more physician services than blacks. The differential in utilization may be due to varying interpretations of the survey questions possibly reflecting different cultures and lifestyles and/or dissimilar expectations of the health care system in blacks having experienced greater barriers to access in the past.

Decision rules for hypertension screening: application in a poor community with endemic hypertension.

Data from a hypertension screening project involving 4,272 black residents of a rural southern community were analyzed to determine the effects of a set of admission-decision rules on the case load of a proposed hypertension clinic. Four decision rules were investigated: conjunctive (diastolic high or systolic high); disjunctive (diastolic and/or systolic high); additive (sum of diastolic and systolic high); and systolic only. Most information relevant to admission to treatment came from knowledge of systolic blood pressures, even though knowledge of the diastolic pressure is essential in individual diagnosis. Incremental increases in the minimum blood pressure necessary for admission to treatment from 140/90 mm Hg to 160/95 mm Hg resulted in a one-third reduction in the number of patients treated, a 24% reduction in personnel utilization per patient, and a 34% reduction in drug costs; but in an estimated 14% increase in the attack rate for morbid events in men.

Hospitalizations in a southern rural community: an application of the 'ecology model'.

The purpose of this study is to re-examine the concepts of health services utilization presented by White and his colleagues in 'The Ecology of Medical Care'. We re-test their model in a rural population in the southern United States using longitudinal instead of cross-sectional data and find that the general principles of the 'Ecology' model do, indeed, apply to rural populations like Rougemont/Bahama. Use of this model has implications for modifying and improving the organization of the health care delivery system and for a fundamental change of emphasis in medical education.

Access to Health Care in a Southern Rural Community

This case study of utilization of health care services in a rural southern community is the first of a series of reports dealing with access to care in this community. The most striking findings were the low utilization of physician and dental services compared with national standards (particularly by the black population) and the infrequent use of private physicians by blacks. Possible explanations for these findings are the short time interval since integration of services after Medicare and Medicaid legislation, the short supply of primary care physicians, especially black, in this community, and the reluctance of white physicians to accept Medicaid patients. We postulate that while employment and social mobility have improved greatly for blacks, established methods of medical and dental practice have changed slowly.

Localism and Related Values Among Negroes in a Southern Rural Community

changing social system as one which does not coIntain enough by way of promised satisfaction in return for adherence to the new norms, and so seems to reject the emergent system in preference for the more traditional form of social organization. The ready group, by contrast, has good reason to see the emergent system as containing promises of even more of the relatively advantaged positions which they have come to enjoy, and hence they seem to welcome, or at least, to refuse to impede, the development of the new system. We are suggesting, in short, that it is not a difference between mental health and mental sickness; or between integration and anomie. Rather, since there is some degree of option between a traditional and a new system and since the balance of responsibility and reward strikes each group as different, one seeks to retain the old, and the other seeks to institute the new. Yet the metaphor in which we have put this difference carries in its vocabulary too much of the actors' subjective definitions of the situations. For it seems clear, from the materials on selfperception and self-image, relative to various others, that ordinary measures of subjective definitions do not indicate as much difference in the self-images as one would expect from the sharp differences in attitudes toward the new ideas. By contrast, the objective indices of difference in such things as income, occupation, education, and the like, do, correspond far more closely with the differences in attitudes. Could it be, then, that the actors here are responding to the pressures of the system upon them in ways unknown to them consciously and unverbalizable by them, and hence not as easily discoverable from a codification of their views of life as from a straightforward analysis of their positions in the social order? Could it also be, then, that, if the inequalities in position and life chances between the hard core and the others were to be reduced over time, the differences between their attitudes toward the Negroes and desegregation would be correspondingly reduced, again in ways unknown to and unperceived by them, and perhaps in spite of their verbalizations to the contrary? Some such destratification and equalization seem to be strongly indicated by our findings.

Expected Versus Actual Social Behavior of Negro Adolescent Girls in a Southern Rural Community

HIMSELF from the protection and the authority the home, he is faced with .a set social standards to which he is expected, both by the community as a whole and his parents in particular, -to live up to. If he is to make an adequate adjustment to this challenging -period life, his actual social behavior 'must be, at least, to some extent, that which is expected by those in authority in his environmental setting. For the Negro adolescent this adjustment is ,even more challenging.' For the Negro adolescent living in the Southern part of the United States this adjustment is, perhaps, even more difficult.

Twixt the Cup and the Lip: Psychological and Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Food Habits.

The socio-economic factors governing the dietary habits of three rural Southern communities are discussed in an interesting manner by the authors of this book. The original field work substantiates the conclusions, which are very much what one would expect to find. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that the many transcripts of conversations with the inhabitants are relegated to the appendixes, since examples of this nature interspersed in the text would serve to hold the reader's attention. This book can be recommended to professional nutritionists who are interested in food habits and attempts to change them and as interesting background material in food patterns for those not directly associated with the field.

'Twixt the Cup and the Lip: Psychological and Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Food Habits

The socio-economic factors governing the dietary habits of three rural Southern communities are discussed in an interesting manner by the authors of this book. The original field work substantiates the conclusions, which are very much what one would expect to find. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that the many transcripts of conversations with the inhabitants are relegated to the appendixes, since examples of this nature interspersed in the text would serve to hold the reader's attention. This book can be recommended to professional nutritionists who are interested in food habits and attempts to change them and as interesting background material in food patterns for those not directly associated with the field.

Constructive Measures for Southern Rural Communities

Journal Article Constructive Measures for Southern Rural Communities Get access Frank D. Alexander Frank D. Alexander Bureau of Agricultural Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 24, Issue 2, December 1945, Pages 181–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572535 Published: 01 December 1945