LEADER 04258nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910459210603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-70626-8 010 $a9786612706264 010 $a0-226-73411-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226734118 035 $a(CKB)2670000000033512 035 $a(EBL)557584 035 $a(OCoLC)654029551 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12164641 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10468867 035 $a(PQKB)10686235 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000741551 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12361077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741551 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10720488 035 $a(PQKB)11010839 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119123 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC557584 035 $a(DE-B1597)524178 035 $a(OCoLC)1135590470 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226734118 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL557584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10405273 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL270626 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000033512 100 $a20100825d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNewcomers to old towns$b[electronic resource] $esuburbanization of the heartland /$fSonya Salamon ; with the collaboration of Karen Davis-Brown ... [et al.] 205 $aPbk. ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-73413-7 311 $a0-226-73412-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index. 327 $apt. 1. Changes in the heartland -- pt. 2. Newcomers, old towns -- pt. 3. The postagrarian countryside. 330 $a2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990's the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America. Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities. 606 $aUrban-rural migration$zMiddle West 606 $aUrban-rural migration$zIllinois$vCase studies 606 $aSociology, Rural$zMiddle West 606 $aSociology, Rural$zIllinois 607 $aMiddle West$xRural conditions 607 $aIllinois$xRural conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUrban-rural migration 615 0$aUrban-rural migration 615 0$aSociology, Rural 615 0$aSociology, Rural 676 $a307.72/0977 700 $aSalamon$b Sonya$0896940 701 $aDavis-Brown$b Karen$0896941 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459210603321 996 $aNewcomers to old towns$92004161 997 $aUNINA