rural society
Non-urban social fabric
Rural society is the social organization and way of life in countryside areas, characterized by agricultural work, lower population density, and close-knit community ties.
The term appears in sociology and development studies to contrast with urban society: Rural society has been transformed by mechanization and the decline of family farming.
Traditional rural societies often feature stronger kinship networks and more conservative values than their urban counterparts.
- farmlandsCrops grow here
- agrarian economyAgriculture-dominated financial structure
- kinship tiesBonds linking relatives together
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- oral storytellingTransmitting tales aloud
family farm · village councils · extended families · subsistence farming · livestock farming · growing season · folk traditions · cooperative farming · land reform · peasantry · folklore · communal living · pastures · local governance · dirt roads · country life · sustainable practices · soil conservation
- social historyeveryday life, social class, social movements, working class, middle class
- countrysidefarmhouse, farm, barns, farmyard, barn
- Swedish HistoryViking Age, Great Northern War, Thirty Years War, constitutional monarchy, Peace of Westphalia
- Norway 1800sindependence movement, parliamentary system, emigration, Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen
- Uruguay historyMontevideo, Rivera, civil wars, constitutions, revolutions
rural societycity life
Existence in populated centers
urban community · city culture · megalopolis · megacity · urban sprawl