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Rural Sociology is the flagship journal of the Rural Sociological Society. Published since 1937, Rural Sociology reaches an international audience of social scientists, policymakers, and agency professionals concerned with rural people, places, and problems. A forum for cutting-edge research, Rural Sociology explores sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging social issues and new approaches to recurring social issues affecting rural people and places.

Rural Sociology 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 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 relate to rural sociology.

Rural Sociology also publishes reviews of books relevant to the rural social science scholarship. Unsolicited book reviews are not accepted. For further information, or to discuss reviewing a book, contact the Book Review Editor, Amanda McMillan Lequieu. ([email protected] ).

The Co-Editors of Rural Sociology are Leif Jensen ([email protected]), Elizabeth Ransom ([email protected]), and Kathy Brasier ([email protected]) of Penn State University. The Managing Editor is Ellie Martin ([email protected]).

If you would like to make a submission to Rural Sociology you can do so by following this link and creating an account for submission with Wiley, our publisher. Please direct any claims or questions for missing print issues of Rural Sociology to our publisher, Wiley Blackwell, at [email protected].

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If you would like to make a submission for Rural Sociology you can do so by following this link  and creating an account for submission with Wiley, our publisher.

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Please direct any claims or questions for missing print issues of Rural Sociology to our publisher, Wiley Blackwell, at [email protected].