Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- 'A problem in search of discipline' (Hamilton 1990: 232) the history of rural sociology -- New issues in rural sociology and rural studies -- The 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in the UK -- The hunting debate: rural political protest and the mobilisation of defence of country sports -- Game shooting in the United Kingdom -- Representing the rural: new methods and approaches -- Conclusion: the future of rural societies and rural sociology -- Appendix: rural sociology institutional framework: critical masses of rural researches in university departments/centres and institutes; sociologists with a periphery interest in the rural; professional associations and rural journals -- Notes -- Glossary of key terms -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prototypes in person perception / Nancy Cantor and Walter Mischel -- A cognitive-attributional analysis of stereotyping / David L. Hamilton -- Self-monitoring processes / Mark Snyder -- Architectural mediation of residential density and control: crowding and the regulation of social contact / Andrew Baum and Stuart Valins -- A cultural ecology of social behavior / J.W. …”