R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Integrated Circuit

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Understand from readings what he puts on the slides. Slides help focus the readings: chapter 6, leach. Focus on globalization with a different perspective: effects on small communities- they are always receiving structural change they have to adapt to, not always victims of global, but also agents in globalization. Alberta province= large scale projects proposed for that region. A lot of resistance to this power development- don"t want it in their backyard; yet these populations are in decline: rural communities are in need of new people/ new population to reverse negative trend. Immigration in rural canada: do rural and small town hold the potential to benefit from immigration, what are the opportunities and constraints of immigration as a rural development, graph. Immigration to ogema: population from 368 to 403 people, group of leaders in the town concerned about population decline.