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They'd be happy to hear how demand for this product vastly outstrips the supply and that it is "green" development. Chances are, they'd be thinking value-added food processing, biofuels -- ethanol perhaps, or manufacturing -- as they pondered how their community might beat out all other contenders to land such a venture. This is about stopping seeing child care merely as an expenditure and starting to see it producing important returns," says Susan Prentice, a University of Manitoba sociology professor who recently authored a series of reports on the availability and economics of rural child care. For whatever reason, the message isn't getting through, despite the critical and deepening labour shortage in this province. We've heard lots about the downward spiral affecting rural commun...
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This article focuses on rural girls' aspirations of becoming migrants in a setting where girls are subjected to social constraints curtailing their movements in the midst of an otherwise mobile society, where mothers and grandmothers frequently recall their experiences in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and boys set off on their first migration in their mid- or late teens. However, the high level of mobility affects both intergenerational relations and the ways in which girls can justify their wish to migrate. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research between 2002 and 2008 in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, the article explores the ways in which images of success and material wealth of (trans)national migrants feed into adolescent girls' imaginations of migration and its outcome. Furthermore,...
... University of Calgary, Department of Sociology Spring 2010 Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights R...
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... every two years from 1982-1986 in several rural communities in the Western United States, where po... trend study conducted annually by the Sociology Department at the University of Manitoba, and incl...
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... locale positionne celle-ci dans un milieu rural ou les activites traditionnelles predominent (agri... also the village community of classic sociology, which highlights the strong social bonds linking ...
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This special issue presents articles which explore how gender relations evolved in rural families in the context of the ongoing transformation of rural life at large and farming in specific related to the global trends of modernisation. The effects of modernisation on rurality are contextual. The case studies in this volume represent diverse patterns of modernisation along different paths to industrialisation (cases studies from Northern, highly industrialised versus Southern late industrialised countries) as well as along different paths to capitalism (see the case studies from post-socialist societies). Large-scale socioeconomic forces led to the transition and dissolution of the "traditional farm family". New forms of existence emerge for rural families complementing and even replaci...
... of the European Society for Rural Sociology. We are happy to be able to present these examples...
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... with other rural churches," says sociology professor William Ramp, "[the church] will draw pe...
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... riots and the continued displacement of the rural poor - a clear indication that the dominant model ... Wittman is an assistant professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Simon Fraser Univers...
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... to focus primarily on urban as opposed to rural spaces and on municipal police as opposed to priva... police studies literature and political sociology. The common phrase "militarization of police," the...
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To help address the high demand for licensed practical nurses across the province, Assiniboine Community College has announced it will deliver its new, two-year practical nursing diploma program at two rural rotating training sites this year.
... in medical microbiology, nutrition and sociology. Students enrolled in the rural locations receive ...
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... bas spread outwards, including suburban and rural regions (Caulfield 1994; Parsons 1980; Phillips 19... in 2008 at the 1st ISA Forum on Sociology --Research Committee 21, in Barcelona, September 5...
