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Appalachian Problems are National Problems
No full textThe Bicentennial is also the approximate centennial of the "discovery" of\ud
Southern Appalachia as a unique subcultural region by the writers of the\ud
"local-color" movement in the mid-1870's. Within twenty years the\ud
missionary movement had transformed the notion of cultural difference into\ud
the idea of Southern Appalachia as a social problem. Today we are faced with\ud
the task of reassessing the claim that Appalachian problems are exceptional in\ud
character. If they are not, solutions to the social and economic difficulties of\ud
Appalachia may lie primarily in national, not regional, social policy
Review Essay: The Appalachian Volunteers in Perspective
No full textJohn F. Kennedy to West Virginia, introducing him to the poverty of the central\ud
Appalachian coalfields as he waged a successful battle against Hubert Humphrey\ud
in the Democratic primary. Kennedy's confrontation with West Virginia's poverty\ud
led to several new federal programs, including the Appalachian Regional\ud
Commission (ARC) and the War on Poverty launched by President Lyndon\ud
Johnson through the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). The Community\ud
Action Program of OEO was the most dramatic innovation among these effortsand\ud
the most controversial. Among its projects to draw young people to public\ud
service and foster "maximum feasible participation" of the poor was the\ud
Appalachian Volunteers (AVs). At our present moment of renewed interest in\ud
community organizing and President Obama's call to community service, a\ud
thoughtful assessment of the AV s' work could inform contemporary activists. The\ud
publication of the first book-length study of the AVs, Thomas Kiffmeyer's\ud
Reformers to Radicals, is both timely and long overdue
Activist Corner: A Conservative???s SPIN
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Which Way to the Road Out of Poverty?
No full textReview of Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee, The Road to Poverty: The Making\ud
of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Action, Scholarship, Reflection, Renewal
No full textThe article presents a speech by David Walls of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, delivered at the annual conference of the Appalachian Studies Association held in Richmond, Kentucky on March 11, 2011. He discusses the 1976 symposium in Boone, North Carolina that led to the founding of the Appalachian Studies Conference, his role as director of Appalachian Volunteers, and his interest in the work of public policy lecturer Marshall Ganz
The Sociology of Southern Appalachia
No full textSociologists have been fascinated by the Appalachians ever since George\ud
Vincent of the University of Chicago took a four-day horseback ride through\ud
Breathitt, Perry, and Knott Counties in eastern Kentucky in 1898. Urging study of\ud
"this curious social survival ... now being modified so rapidly," Vincent concluded\ud
his descriptive and impressionistic account, "Let students of sociology leave their\ud
books and at first hand in the Cumberlands deal with the phenomena of a social\ud
order arrested at a relatively early state of evolution."1 Setting aside questions\ud
about the accuracy of Vincent's characterization of the region as a retarded frontier,\ud
we can see in his article two themes which predominate in sociological studies of\ud
Appalachia from his day to ours: social change and social problems
Models of Poverty and Planned Change: A Framework for Synthesis
Get PDFRecent discussions of planned social change have organized interventive strategies into models which identify underlying philosophical assumptions, value orientations, and political perspectives. Two papers published in 1965 can be taken as the beginning of this model-building discussion: Richard Walton proposed a dichotomy between attitude change and power strategies, and Roland Warren outlined a continuum from collaborative through campaign to contest strategies. In the subsequent literature, three publications stand out as major formulations of models of planned social change. What is particularly striking is that each develops a trichotomous typology of change strategies. Jack Rothman (1968) formulates the Locality Development, Social Planning, and Social Action models; Robert Chin and Kenneth Benne (1969) formulate the Rational-Empirical, Normative/Re-Educative, and Power- Coercive models; and James Crowfoot and Mark Chesler (1974) formulate the Countercultural, Professional-Technical, and Political model
Which Way to the Road Out of Poverty?
Get PDFReview of Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee, The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (Cambridge University Press, 2000).Walls, David S. "Which Way to the Road Out of Poverty?” The Journal of Appalachian Studies, Vol. 6, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Fall 2000): 25-28.1082-716
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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