The Engines of Change in Resource- Dependent Communities

摘要

Social scientists have long attempted to understand change in natural resource- dependent communities. This article examines the relationship of three alternative "engines of change": local resource production, local historical events, and broad societal trends. Regression models were used to examine the relationships between four dimensions of community social change (size, structure, cohesion, and anomie) and the alternative "engines of change" in seven resource- dependent communities in the Pacific Northwest for over 50 year time periods.