In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural
community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area
centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the
sociologist in 1946. Dr Burnet examines geographical and economic
conditions in Hanna, and shows how farming practices, ways of
living, and modes of tenure brought into the area from more humid
regions proved ill adapted to the dry belt and delayed economic
adjustment. In turn, the difficulties in the realm of economics had
adverse social and cultural consequences in both the households and
the community as a whole. The Hanna area was chosen for study,
though not altogether typical, because it revealed more clearly
than other areas not so severely hit by the drought of the 1930s
the kind of disturbances within the Alberta social structure which
made possible the rise of the Social Credit movement.
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