The Work of Rural Professionals: Doing the Gemeinshaft-Gesellschaft Gavotte

Autor/in	Mellow, Muriel
Titel	The Work of Rural Professionals: Doing the Gemeinshaft-Gesellschaft Gavotte
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 70 (2005) 1, S.50-69 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Occupations; Clergy; Rural Areas; Rural Urban Differences; Rural Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beruf; Berufsumfeld; Klerus; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	This paper considers how rurality affects the work of professionals. Sociologists have paid little attention to possible rural-urban differences in work styles and no study exists which compares the rural experience of those in different professions. I review the literature describing the work of various rural professionals and examine interview data from rural clergy to see whether rural professionals differentiate their work from that of their urban peers. The comparison across occupations reveals several common concerns, including the need to do similar work with fewer resources, the necessity of adapting protocols and codes of conduct to rural settings, and the challenge of dealing with dual relationships. I argue that conventional standards of professional behavior reflect an urban bias and that rural life problematizes the notion of professionalism. Those who work in rural places are caught trying to dance between the "tunes" of gemeinschaft and gesellschaft society. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10