Rural Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of Rural Sociology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Rural Issues70
Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health43
How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage*23
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The Enduring Price of Place: Revisiting the Rural Cost of Living☆15
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Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridg14
Perspectives of Agroforestry Practitioners on Agroforestry Adoption: Case Study of Selected SARE Participants☆14
Unraveling and Navigating Paradoxical Tensions in Integrating Livestock Health Monitoring Systems: Case Studies From Chinese Farms12
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras*12
Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences, by HughCampbell, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 216 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐3501‐2054‐9.12
The End of the Village, by Nick R.Smith, Barnard College: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 324 pp. $27.00 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1092‐1.11
Introduction11
2024 RSS Presidential Address: Reconceptualizing Rurality and Nurturing Rural Sociological Souls☆11
Geographical Tensions Within Municipalities? Evidence from Swedish Local Governments☆11
Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK☆10
The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindness, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest☆10
Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster *10
Narratives and Self‐Reflective Process of Lifestyle Migrants: The Quest for the “Good Life”*10
Differential Access in Mortgage Credit: The Role of Neighborhood Spatial and Racial Stratification9
Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience By Ann M.Eisenberg, Cambridge University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $34.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐10‐898440‐99
Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults' Intentions to Stay for Employment ☆9
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Colonizing Canis lupus: Wolf Management as a Settler Colonial Project8
The Watersheds Speak: The Voice of Ecosystems in Northern New York's Environmental Movements☆8
Coastal Farmers' and Agricultural Landowners' Perceptions of Marsh Migration and Emerging Socio‐Ecological Vulnerabilities Related to Sea‐Level Rise8
Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America☆8
Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First, by TerryLeahy, New York: Routledge, 2019. 246 pp. $42.36 (paper). ISBN:9780367665753.8
Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West*7
The Dignity of Nonworking Men*7
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Influence of Internet Use on Farmers' Low‐Carbon Production Practices: The Mediating Role of Capital Endowment☆6
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Catching Up Yet Still Falling Behind: Sources, Heterogeneity, and Implications of the Modest Female Educational Disadvantage in Rural China6
“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life*6
Beyond “Deaths of Despair”: Narratives of Distress and Risk‐Taking Behaviors Among Rural Working‐Class Men5
Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy. By SuzanneMettler & Trevor B.Brown. Princeton University Press, 2025. $29.95 (harback). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐126438‐75
Centering Indigenous Brilliance in “The Stories We Tell”☆5
The Role of ICT in Maintaining Social Cohesion: Understanding the Potential of Digital Initiatives for Social Networks in Rural Areas☆5
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The Urban–Rural Digital Divide in Internet Access and Online Activities During the COVID‐19 Pandemic5
Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi‐Factored Phenomenon☆5
The Rural Lawyer: How to Incentivize Rural Law Practice and Help Small Communities ThriveBy HannahHaksgaard, Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 204 pp. $30.99. 5
Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA 5
Landowner Perspectives on Large‐Scale Solar Leasing: Decision‐Making and Agricultural Implications in Rural New York State5
The Impact of Rural Development Policy on Social Capital: Measurement, Heterogeneity, and Implications for Collective Action4
Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆4
Eliminating Stereotypes: Villages as Desirable Spaces for Partying among Spanish Youth☆4
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965, by CherisseJones‐Branch, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2021. 227 pp. $29.96 (cloth). ISBN:4
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy: Appalachian Medical Student Perceptions of Practice☆4
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The Farm Workforce Modernization Act: Finding Common Ground at the Crossroads of Immigration and Labor Policy4
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge University Press, 2020. 34
The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile☆4
The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture, by Karen E.Hayden, New York: Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback $39.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐4985‐4762‐8.3
“People that are Supporting [the] Whole Sector are on their Knees”; Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Change are Occupational Stressors for Irish Farmers ☆3
Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan☆3
Farmers' Perspectives on Participatory Breeding of Native Maize in Mexico: A Rural Application to Q‐Methodology3
Unpacking Gendered Access to Land: Intrahousehold Sharing of Land Rights in Rural Tamil Nadu3
Material Hardship Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in the United States : 2013–20213
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology, edited byKatharineLegun, Julie C.Keller, MichaelCarolan and Michael M.Bell, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 1200 pp. $360 (2 Volume H3
A Fair Comparison: Women's and Men's Farms at Seven Scales in the United States☆3
Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan, by KimikoTanaka and Nan E.Johnson, Durham, North Carolina:Carolina Academic Press, 2021. 168 pp. $30 SC. ISBN: 9781531018610.3
The Expanding Search for Work: The Gender Gap in Livelihood Choices among the Rural Chinese, from 1989 to 2015☆3
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Conditions of Possibility for Deep Social Change—Imaginaries Concerning Normality in a Finnish Online Discussion on Self‐Sufficiency2
Seeing Green: Lifecycles of an Arctic Agricultural Frontier☆2
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“Good Old Boys From Good Old Families”: Rural Criminal–Legal Involvements and the Reproduction of Social Inequality2
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Community in Context: The Effect of the Local Community on the Experience of Community2
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The Farming Question: Intergenerational Linkages, Gender and Youth Aspirations in Rural Zambia☆2
“Can I Speak to the Bossman?” Sources of Stress, Behavioral Adaptations, and Role Incongruency in Female Farmers☆2
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Is Rural America Older Than Urban America? The Answer Depends on the Decade2
Advances in Rural Criminology: A Review of Three Recently Published Books2
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Rural Development in the Digital Age: Exploring Information and Communication Technology through Social Inclusion☆2
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Reversing the Gaze: Developing Indigenous and Western Media Frames to Compare Coverage of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the News Media*2
Accumulation and Anticipation: A Temporal Reframing of Social and Cultural Capital2
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Community Landscape Preferences for Reuse of Soviet‐Era Post‐Agricultural Brownfields—What's the Difference?*2
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology, byEarl WrightII, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati Press, 2020. 250 pp. $50.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐947602‐57‐1.2
Framing Prior Consultation in Brazil: Ethnographic Perspectives on Limits of Participation and Multi‐Cultural Politics, byCharlotteSchumann, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2018. 333 pp. $45.00 (paper).1
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Breaking Patriarchal Succession Cycles: How Land Relations Influence Women's Roles in Farming☆1
Eco‐Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World*1
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Community as Story: Identity, Place, and Narrative in San Juan County, Utah, USA1
Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry: A Gender‐Sensitive Comparison of Farmer and Farmworker Perspectives☆1
Food Expensiveness in Scotland's Remote Areas: An Analysis of Household Food Purchases☆1
Governing the Rural Idyll: The Multifaceted Roles of Government in the Politics of Enhanced Commodification1
“Keeping Things under the Rug”: Racial Dynamics in the Context of Large Immigration Raids in Rural Mississippi☆1
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Divergent Perceptions of Dairy Farmers on the Role of Grazing in Animal Welfare and Production1
Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan, by KimikoTanaka and Nan E.Johnson, Kawanehonchō: Carolina Academic Press, 2021. 168 pp. $30 SC. ISBN: 9781531018610.1
Editorial1
Countryside, Borderlands, Nature—Public Art beyond the City☆1
Rural Life, Rural Healthcare, and Telehealth: An Interpretive Phenomenology Study1
Rural Residence, Motorcycle Access, and Contraception Use in South and Southeast Asia ☆1
Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development, by K.Philip, James Currey, Suffolk: Woodbridge, 2018.1
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“Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?”: Underground Landscapes & Place‐Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities☆1
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