Sociology and Space, No. 43, 1974.
Review article
Sociological Aspects of Locating Industry in Rural Areas
Dragana Prokić
Abstract
Drawing on the results of her own investigations, the authoress analyses the
effects of locating industry in rural areas.
According to her, newly developed industry in a rural region leads to the
emergence of an urban centre, and then industry begins to produce marked
effects on the surrounding rural region. One of the effects can be seen in a marked
influx of new inhabitants into the place in which the industry is situated, in their
numerical domination in non-agricultural activities, in a decrease of private farming
as the population's source of income, and in the emergence of new social relations.
The place of work and the place of residence become separated, and production and
consumption develop into two separated spheres of the population’s life.
Round the »capital« of the region, once it has taken shape, there will soon
develop a concentric circle of socio-economic influences which derives from the
newly developed industry and soon begins to affect the surrounding rural region.
The main consequence of the influence of industry on the surrounding rural
district is the interlinking of two types of economic activities, two types of consumption,
and two different types of socio-economic relations.
Viewed as a whole, the location of industry in rural areas leads to changes
in one sphere (economic, sociological or psychological) which are immediately
reflected in another. In fact, through this interaction the whole system of economic
activity and social relations undergoes a profound change.
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119660
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Publication date:
8.3.1974.
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