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A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta
Jean Burnet (Author)
9780802063403
Paperback / softback, published 15 December 1951
206 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.3 kg
‘Dr. Burnet’s book is destined for a place on the small but indispensable shelf of studies which have made genuine contributions to the sociology of Canadian communities.’ ‘Dr Burnet’s factual story is as fascinating as a novel. Brilliantly organized, and written with striking clarity, the work never loses touch with human values … This searching analysis admirably fulfils its purpose in revealing the kinds of disturbances present in the rural social organization of Alberta, but its findings are of much more general application.’
In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946. Dr Burnet examines geographical and economic conditions in Hanna, and shows how farming practices, ways of living, and modes of tenure brought into the area from more humid regions proved ill adapted to the dry belt and delayed economic adjustment. In turn, the difficulties in the realm of economics had adverse social and cultural consequences in both the households and the community as a whole. The Hanna area was chosen for study, though not altogether typical, because it revealed more clearly than other areas not so severely hit by the drought of the 1930s the kind of disturbances within the Alberta social structure which made possible the rise of the Social Credit movement.