{"product_id":"next-year-country-a-study-of-rural-social-organization-in-alberta-paperback-softback-9780802063403","title":"Next-Year Country; A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta (Paperback \/ softback) 9780802063403","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNext-Year Country\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean Burnet (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802063403\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 1951\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e206 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.3 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Dr. Burnet\u0026amp;#x2019;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.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Queen\u0026amp;#x2019;s Quarterly \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Dr Burnet\u0026amp;#x2019;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.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Canadian Geographical Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52542616764696,"sku":"9780802063403","price":18.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/next-year-country-a-study-of-rural-social-organization-in-alberta-paperback-softback-9780802063403","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}