Social vitality in rural development research

In: Zbornik Matice Srpske za društvene nauke: Proceedings for social sciences, Issue 143, p. 293-306

Abstract

Rural community development is one of the central rural sociological
concepts. The idea itself deserves double attention: from the point of its
theoretical foundation and from the perspective of the need to be
operationalized because of research and rural development planning. In this
paper, the idea of rural development is being approached from the aspect of
social vitality as a new/old concept. The concept of social vitality is being
defined and operationalized in order to indicate the possibilities of this
concept as an analytical tool for researching rural development.