How do communities act? Unique events and purposeful strategies in the formation of an industrial base in rivertown

Using an ethnographic case study, this research examines three competing hypotheses of how a community acts. The study attempts to reconstruct the events that led various actors in the community to seek the formation of an industrial base as an alternative economic source for the community. The roles of unique events, specific persons and particular strategies in the formation of the industrial base are examined. It was found that unique events play a very important role in the community's concern over economic alternatives to agriculture and their success in securing such alternatives. These events were also important to key individuals within the community, placing them in positions to act in the industrial base formation. Strategies of community action used in the industrial base formation and since that time were found to be consistent with the centralized weak-tie network hypothesis of action or ganization. This type of community action organization seems to be very effective at the community level but tends to be very exclusionary of the community population as a whole.1. Research supported in part by Project Nos. MO-00239; MO-00237; and MO-00240 of the Missouri Agriculture Experiment Station. This research is part of a larger study through the Missouri Agriculture Experiment Station and the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Rural Sociology on Rural Community Viability. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Southern Agricultural Sciences Annual Meeting in Little Rock, Ark., February, 1990.     

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