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Rieger, Jon. "Family Documents as Community Archive: Reconstructing Social Change in a Small Rural Community" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Seelbach Hilton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p125053_index.html>

Rieger, J. H. , 2006-08-10 "Family Documents as Community Archive: Reconstructing Social Change in a Small Rural Community" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Seelbach Hilton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p125053_index.html

Publication Type: Abstract Abstract: Studies of community change have heretofore focused mostly on places of sufficient size and importance to have accrued regular statistical and other records that provide some systematic basis for assaying trends. This paper addresses strategies that can be employed in studying the social change process in rural communities too small and/or remote to generate a substantial corpus of local official records or to receive regular coverage by nearby and regional media. In communities of this size (generally below 1000 people), the record of change often resides mostly in the shared memories and family memorabilia of surviving community residents. The paper outlines the kinds of materials and evidence, including visual evidence, that can be collected and the ways in which such materials may be utilized to reconstruct the changes that have occurred in such localities. Such documentation can serve as a useful proxy in situations where more usual records are sparse or non-existent.

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