Many Americans who trace their roots to communities similar to
those of Appalachian Kentucky are becoming aware of the extent to
which the problems of such communities represent the price paid for
keeping alive traditions that are beginning to be missed in the
wider society. Using fresh data and ingenious ways of letting local
people speak for themselves, Mary Jean Bowman and H. Dudley
Plunkett have thrown light on how isolated, small-town people
respond to the encroachment of modern America, with its organized
economy, mass communications media, reliance on more and more
schooling, and persistent drive for social change. The study
reveals a pervasive tension between old ways and new aspirations.
Sometimes the new is in alliance with the national culture, but
often tensions between regional and national ways are acute. The
authors put little faith in naive attempts to engineer social
change in Appalachia -- attempts they suggest are based on dubious
cultural assumptions and misconceived strategies. This study of one
region in one nation can be a model for the study of similar
patterns of change elsewhere.
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