Social control of vice in post-frontier Montana

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This article discusses the development of restrictions toward undesirable activities such as drinking, gambling, and prostitution after the settlement of non-indigenous migrants. The authors examine the phases in which rural Montana developed vice control policies: the frontier phase with little restrictions, the phase in which families began to settle and vices became more restricted, the arrival of homesteaders and moral entrepreneurs who tried to eliminate vice, and World War I when state and federal laws dictated morality.

Montana, Prevention, History, Ethical aspects, Rural population, Vice control, Vice

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Deconstructing rural protest: the emergence of a new social movement

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The background to the emergence of the so-called 'politics of the rural' is examined along with how protests are organised and operationalised. Further, the potential of drawing on social movement theory that would provide an interpretative framework for research on the new politics is also explored.

Models, Political aspects, Social movements, Rural areas, Sparsely populated areas

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The spatiality of social relations: an Indian case-study

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The material interests of Indian social classes are often directly related to particular geographical areas, which means agrarian social and state-society relations are always local relations. Social relations are therefore spatial relations, significantly affecting the way society works.

India, Statistical Data Included, Agriculture, Demographic aspects, Social classes, Social class, Public spaces

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