Rural Sociology

Papers
(The TQCC of Rural Sociology is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage*65
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Rural Issues37
Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health22
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Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline☆13
The Enduring Price of Place: Revisiting the Rural Cost of Living☆12
Perspectives of Agroforestry Practitioners on Agroforestry Adoption: Case Study of Selected SARE Participants☆11
Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences, by HughCampbell, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 216 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐3501‐2054‐9.10
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridg10
Unraveling and Navigating Paradoxical Tensions in Integrating Livestock Health Monitoring Systems: Case Studies From Chinese Farms10
2024 RSS Presidential Address: Reconceptualizing Rurality and Nurturing Rural Sociological Souls☆10
Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults' Intentions to Stay for Employment☆9
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras*9
Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster*9
Geographical Tensions Within Municipalities? Evidence from Swedish Local Governments☆9
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The End of the Village, by Nick R.Smith, Barnard College: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 324 pp. $27.00 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1092‐1.9
Narratives and Self‐Reflective Process of Lifestyle Migrants: The Quest for the “Good Life”*8
The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindness, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest☆8
The Watersheds Speak: The Voice of Ecosystems in Northern New York's Environmental Movements☆7
Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience By Ann M.Eisenberg, Cambridge University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $34.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐10‐898440‐97
Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK☆7
Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America☆7
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Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First, by TerryLeahy, New York: Routledge, 2019. 246 pp. $42.36 (paper). ISBN:9780367665753.7
Colonizing Canis lupus: Wolf Management as a Settler Colonial Project7
Differential Access in Mortgage Credit: The Role of Neighborhood Spatial and Racial Stratification7
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
Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West*6
The Dignity of Nonworking Men*6
Influence of Internet Use on Farmers' Low‐Carbon Production Practices: The Mediating Role of Capital Endowment☆6
Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi‐Factored Phenomenon☆5
Landowner Perspectives on Large‐Scale Solar Leasing: Decision‐Making and Agricultural Implications in Rural New York State5
Centering Indigenous Brilliance in “The Stories We Tell”☆5
Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach☆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
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The Role of ICT in Maintaining Social Cohesion: Understanding the Potential of Digital Initiatives for Social Networks in Rural Areas☆5
Beyond “Deaths of Despair”: Narratives of Distress and Risk‐Taking Behaviors Among Rural Working‐Class Men5
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Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy. By SuzanneMettler & Trevor B.Brown. Princeton University Press, 2025. $29.95 (harback). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐126438‐74
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy: Appalachian Medical Student Perceptions of Practice☆4
The Impact of Rural Development Policy on Social Capital: Measurement, Heterogeneity, and Implications for Collective Action4
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Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆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
The Urban–Rural Digital Divide in Internet Access and Online Activities During the COVID‐19 Pandemic4
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
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Eliminating Stereotypes: Villages as Desirable Spaces for Partying among Spanish Youth☆3
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
“People that are Supporting [the] Whole Sector are on their Knees”; Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Change are Occupational Stressors for Irish Farmers ☆3
A Fair Comparison: Women's and Men's Farms at Seven Scales in the United States☆3
“You're Poor, so You're Not Going to Do Anything:” Socioeconomic Status and Capital Accumulation as a Means to Access Higher Education for Rural Youth☆3
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Material Hardship Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in the United States : 2013–20213
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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
The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile☆3
Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan☆3
The Expanding Search for Work: The Gender Gap in Livelihood Choices among the Rural Chinese, from 1989 to 2015☆3
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
Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations☆3
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