Welcome To Rural Sociology 1000 Introduction to Rural Sociology

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Welcome To Rural Sociology 1000 Introduction to
Rural Sociology

• Mary Grigsby
• Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
• Division of Applied Social Sciences

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Music

• Rodney Atkins- Watching You

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• TOPICS OF DISCUSSION

• Class Business
• You must bring a pen to class next
• Wednesday to use in writing your exercise. Pencil
  will not
• be accepted.
• Defining rurality
• Groups
• Cooleys Looking Glass
• Self
• The Case of Noodling

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Resocialization

• The process of discarding values and behaviors
  unsuited to new circumstances and replacing them
  with new, more appropriate values and norms.
• Examples?

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Groups

• As Agents of Socialization
• Share distinct identity (language, family
  descent, military unit, noodling group)
• Feel a sense of belonging
• Interact directly or indirectly with each other

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Groups

• Primary Group-A social group that has
  face-to-face contact and strong emotional ties
  among its members.
• Ingroup-Group with which people identify and to
  which they feel closely attached, particularly
  when that attachment is founded on opposition
  toward an outgroup toward which there is a
  feeling of separatness, opposition or even hatred.

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The Looking-Glass Self

• Cooley maintained that the self is a product of
  interaction experiences.
• A sense of self develops through people acting as
  mirrors for one another.
• We see ourselves reflected in others reactions
  to our appearance and behaviors.
• We acquire a sense of self by being sensitive to
  the appraisals of ourselves that we perceive
  others to have.

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Okie Noodling Questions

• Who are the significant agents of socialization
  or significant others involved in teaching people
  to noodle?
• Draw on Cooleys concept of the Looking-glass
  self in explaining why people become noodlers.
  What sort of identity is being constructed?

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Okie Noodling Questions

• 3. What is one norm that noodlers are socialized
  to follow? Are the norms consistent by group or
  developed on an individual basis? Explain with
  noodler descriptions.
• 4. What values are those who learn noodling being
  socialized into?

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Missouri NoodlersArticle by Mark Morgan (2006)
The Social Hierarchy of Fishing Myth or
Reality? in Human Dimensions of Wildlife
11317-327.

• N103
• 6 women
• 94 men
• 55 high school education
• 6 college education
• Over 90 lived in rural areas
• Most were in blue-collar professions (building
  and construction, farming, Skilled trades)

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Missouri Noodlers

• Group belonging based on trust, respect (pecking
  order each other and the fish), community ties
  of reciprocity
• Collective Memory

• Value for self-sufficiency sharing toughness
  courage skill, time in nature family time
  together eating what you catch

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Collective Memory

• The experiences shared and recalled by
  significant numbers of people. Such memories are
  revived, preserved, shared, passed on, and recast
  in many forms, such as stories, holidays,
  rituals, and monuments.