标题：Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Bakker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura, and Mark Schucksmith, eds., From Community to Consumption: New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research. Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 16
摘要：This edited volume, published in the Research in Rural Sociology and Development series, is a product of the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology, held in 2008 in South Korea. I was delighted to read a few chapters, which were based on the paper presentations I had listened to and read in Goyang as a participant of the meeting. I congratulate the four editors for their fantastic editorial work with 18 manuscripts written by authors from across the globe (15 countries) with varied English writing skills. As expected from any edited book, the intellectual merits of the chapters are uneven. By keeping the length of each chapter relatively short, however, the editors ensured that all the manuscripts met a high standard of quality in presenting arguments grounded in appropriate theory-framing and empirical data.
