ABSTRACT
The "rural" aspects of big-city life are evident in the sociological literature. One need only consider the long history of attempts to study urban "neighborhoods" and "communities" as well as earnest suggestions for their reconstitution when they are threatened by disintegration. In general, urban sociology has paid little attention even to those studies, focusing instead on the great metropolis rather than on the smaller cities. The rural housewife who puts up jams, jellies and preserves from the fruits of farm acreage has a slik-gowned bediamonded sister in town who loves to fill Mason jars and cans with penthouse-grown fruits and berries—when she doesn't have the hired cook do it. The rural free delivery of mail and the rural telephone are great boons to the isolated woman on the farm. The metropolis is defended as not lacking either the physical or moral attributes of the country towns and the farmland.
