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Rural Sociology, a forum for cutting-edge research, explores sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging social issues and new approaches to recurring social issues affecting rural people and places.

The journal is particularly interested in advancing sociological theory and welcomes the use of a wide range of social science methodologies. Manuscripts that use a sociological perspective to address the effects of local and global systems on rural people and places, rural community revitalization, rural demographic changes, rural poverty, natural resource allocations, the environment, food and agricultural systems, and related topics from all regions of the world are welcome.

Rural Sociology also accepts papers that significantly advance the measurement of key sociological concepts or provide well-documented critical analysis of one or more theories as these measures and analyses are related to rural sociology.

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Rural Sociology 最新一期(Volume 90, Issue 4, December 2025)的内容，共计4篇文章，详情如下。

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Unpacking Gendered Access to Land: Intrahousehold Sharing of Land Rights in Rural Tamil Nadu

Lianne Oosterbaan

Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health

Julia Linder, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Shoshanah Inwood, Tiffany Woods

Material Hardship Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in the United States: 2013–2021

Michael Caniglia

“Good Old Boys From Good Old Families”: Rural Criminal–Legal Involvements and the Reproduction of Social Inequality

Jennifer Sherman, Jennifer Schwartz

Articles

Unpacking Gendered Access to Land: Intrahousehold Sharing of Land Rights in Rural Tamil Nadu

Lianne Oosterbaan

This paper examines intrahousehold access to land in rural Tamil Nadu, India, arguing that household members do not have equal access to their household's land. Drawing on the ‘bundle of rights’ metaphor, this paper unpacks the various rights that household members can derive from household land. Ethnographic data reveal that women have the most limited bundle of rights compared to men in their household. Social norms and practices prefer sons to inherit land, restricting women's access to land. This paper argues that simply registering land in women's names does not necessarily give women greater control over household land, as management rights are shaped more by gender norms than legal ownership. This suggests that solely increasing women's landownership is insufficient to challenge the underlying social practices that perpetuate gender inequalities in land access. The paper highlights the importance of understanding intrahousehold dynamics to address the complex barriers women face in accessing land.

Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health

Julia Linder, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Shoshanah Inwood, Tiffany Woods

Due to high-stress agricultural working environments, farmers are at high risk for mental illness, including anxiety, depression, and suicide. These challenges are exacerbated by rural settings with limited access to mental healthcare and pervasive mental health stigma. An area of increasing interest is how climate change impacts, such as drought, extreme temperatures, and changing seasons, impact farmer mental health and well-being. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, we analyze pathways through which extreme weather may adversely affect farmers' mental health, emphasizing the impact of extreme weather on stress and distress in the U.S. Midwest. Our narrative synthesis of existing literature reveals several pathways linking the impacts of climate change to negative mental health outcomes for farmers, including exposure to chronic stress, the uncertainty and lack of control associated with extreme weather, and the erosion of place and “good farmer” identities. Quantitative analysis of survey data from 837 randomly sampled farmers in Ohio, USA, was used to test findings from our narrative literature review. Results showed a significant association between exposure to extreme weather events and heightened comprehensive stress and psychological distress. More empirical work is needed to test the pathways through which extreme weather may impact farmer mental health and well-being.

Material Hardship Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in the United States: 2013–2021

Michael Caniglia

Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (N = 69,735), this paper analyzes wellbeing across nonmetropolitan–metropolitan areas through the lens of material hardship—characterized here as a household's inability to purchase sufficient healthy foods, live in structurally safe homes, or pay bills. This approach mirrors that of other social scientists who depict poverty as not only the absence of income, but also the inability to live well. Bivariate linear probability models indicate that nonmetropolitan households face substantively greater risks of not securing enough healthy food (b = 0.026, p < 0.001), living in a poor-quality housing unit (b = 0.014, p < 0.05), and experiencing any form of hardship (b = 0.020, p < 0.05) relative to metropolitan households. However, disparities disappear after accounting for demographic and household characteristics. In the case of bill-paying hardship, nonmetropolitan households exhibit lower risks of hardship than metropolitan settings in the final models (b = −0.009, p < 0.05). Decomposition models indicate that lower incomes and elevated prevalence of disability among nonmetropolitan households explain many of the initial disparities evidenced in bivariate models.

“Good Old Boys From Good Old Families”: Rural Criminal–Legal Involvements and the Reproduction of Social Inequality

Jennifer Sherman, Jennifer Schwartz

In this paper, we draw upon 71 in-depth interviews to explore an under-researched aspect of the criminal–legal experience as it pertains to reproduction of inequality: interactions of symbolic resources including social and moral capital with criminal–legal trajectories in rural communities. We find that rural communities can provide significant support to residents when caught in legal transgressions, minimizing both trauma and long-term impacts. But for those who lack resources, whether due to shorter residencies, marginalized race and/or class statuses, or stained local reputations, communities can provide a combination of low support and high visibility that amplifies negative impacts. We highlight the complexity of rural criminal-legal system involvements and social dynamics that minimize or exacerbate their impacts. We focus on multiple aspects of the postarrest experience for those who have been in rural jails, including external judgments and internalization of stigma; visibility and surveillance that amplify negative impacts; and the roles of intersectional (dis)advantages. We illustrate the ways in which these interlocking internal and external mechanisms serve to reinforce and reproduce existing inequalities, finding that these undertheorized social processes contribute profoundly to dynamics in which communities take care of their better-off residents while further marginalizing those who are most vulnerable.

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