Rural-Urban

Question 1

Raban

Answer 1

Not only do we carry around with us an idyll-ized sense of what our rural areas look like but we are often shocked when encountering other stereotypes of our countrysides.

Question 2

Focus on how nature relates to space

Answer 2

Nature is by no means confined to rural areas, but countryside’s are often represented as the obvious space of nature.

Question 3

Focus on ‘hidden others’

Answer 3

Countrysides are rich in myth, and they represent territories where an overriding cultural gloss on life can mask very significant socially excluded groups.

Question 4

Idyll-ized view

Answer 4

Country living is characterised by happy, healthy and close-knit community and a problem free existence that differs markedtly from urban life.

Question 5

Trend in past 25 years

Answer 5

There has been a trend whereby population had been concentrating into urban centres

Question 6

Marc Mormont (1990)

Answer 6

there is no longer a single rural space but rather a multiplicity of social spaces that overlap the same geographical area

Question 7

P Cloke et al (1994)

Answer 7

In 12 case study areas in Enland, percentages in or on the margins of poverty - 39.2% and 12.8% with 10 of the 12 areas having more then 20% levels of poverty.

Question 8

Paul Cloke (1997)

Answer 8

The idyllization of the rural lifestyle contributes to concealing UK rural poverty

Question 9

Bell and Valentine (1995)

Answer 9

Rural communities are less exposed to the progress made by lesbians and gay mens movements in urban areas, and police forces in rural locations are commonly less sensitized than those in city to dealing with sexual dissidents, which can result in homophic or ignorant policing of lesbian and gay lifestyles.

Question 10

Wilson (2000)

Answer 10

Many lesbians and gay men living in the country are reluctant to ‘come out’ because they are afraid of encountering homophobia in close-knit, family orientated communities.