Revisiting the rural-urban contrast: Personal networks in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan settings

Rural Sociology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 306-325

  Beggs, John J ^a   Haines, Valerie A ^b   Hurlbert, Jeanne S ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY (1985); PERSONAL NETWORK; RURAL DIVERSITY; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

USA, LOUISIANA;

EID: 0030437591     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1996.tb00622.x     Document Type: Article

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