@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5887,
	  title     = {Spatial thinking Issues: Towards Rural Sociological Research Agenda in the Third Millennium},
	  author    = {Abdel-Samad M. Ali},
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	  abstract     = {Does the spatial perspective provide a common thread for rural sociology? Have rural sociologists succeeded in bringing order to their data using spatial analysis models and techniques? A trial answer to such questions, as touchstones of theoretical and applied sociological studies in rural areas, is the point at issue in the present paper. Spatial analyses have changed the way rural sociologists approach scientific problems. Rural sociology is spatial by nature because much, if not most, of its research topics has a spatial “awareness." However, such spatial awareness is not quite the same as spatial analysis because it is not typically associated with underlying theories and hypotheses about spatial patterns that are designed to be tested for their specific spatial content. This paper presents pressing issues for future research to reintroduce mainstream rural sociology to the concept of space.
},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences},
	  volume    = {5},
	  number    = {12},
	  year      = {2011},
	  pages     = {1871 - 1879},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5887},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/60},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 60, 2011},
	}