Mass Communication in the South

Moore, Harry Estill

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“…Almost all of them came to the metropolis from small towns and hamlets-rural worlds. The "social" distance between rural and urban roles in the South is relatively great: transportation and communication throughout the South is traditionally underdeveloped (Moore, 1951). This condition would seem to predispose them to a higher, not a lower, rate of suicide; the move would contain both "egoistic" and "anomic" forces.…”

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“…These deal with the nature of rural life as against urban life, and with self-selcction or differential migration; that is, why some persons migrate and others do not. ( O n these topics see Clinard, 1963;Leacock, 1957;and Mowrer, 1942. ) Concernilig the latter point it should be noted that cvcry study of migration and its consequences in forms of deviant behavior encounters a confounding effect.…”

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Suicide, Migration, and Race: A Study of Cases in New Orleans*

Breed¹

1966

Journal of Social Issues

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This paper will examine the consequences of urban migration for suicide by analyzing the case histories of persons who committed suicide in New Orleans. The major independent variables under consideration are migration, sex, and race.Migration confronts the individual with a new milieu that may contrast sharply with the way of life in a small town. The South provides an exceptionally pointed region for such investigation because there the urban-rural contrast is generally greater than in the older urbanized regions of the country. In spite of the rapid rate of urban growth in the South over the past decade or so, the lines of demarcation between the urban and the rural locales remain relatively clear. In effect, then, urban migrants coming out of the southern rural milieu are indeed confronted with a social situation that is sharply different from the situations they left.

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