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Modernization and Rural Population Movements: Western Puerto Rico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Janice J. Monk  and
Charles S. Alexander
Janice J. Monk
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles S. Alexander
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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In geographic studies of modernization, attention has tended to focus on the processes of urbanization and the characteristics of urban areas rather than on rural areas. The latter have been included in macro-scale studies such as those of Gould and Soja in Africa investigating the spatial diffusion of modernization. In their studies of change in the Pacific, Brookfield (1973) and his associates also worked in rural communities, concentrating on the micro-scale. In research dealing with change in rural Latin America, emphasis has been on colonization studies and ruralurban migration, (Parsons, 1973; Preston, 1974; Stouse, 1971) but study of the effects of urbanization on change within a traditional rural areas has been neglected. Further, there have been few attempts in research on modernization to integrate macro and micro studies or to work at an intermediate scale.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , November 1979 , pp. 523 - 550
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Copyright © University of Miami 1979

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