Social and Cultural Impact of a Proposed Reservoir on a Rural Kentucky School District

Authors

Charles R. Smith, University of Kentucky
Philip Drucker, University of Kentucky

Abstract

This study utilizes anthropological concepts and research methods to study the educational system of a Central Kentucky school district with the goal of predicting the impact on it of a proposed multi-purpose (flood control, recreation, etc.) reservoir, and proposing options for forestalling dysfunctional aspects of that impact. The impact will result from the fact that although the county is now rurally oriented, the proposed reservoir will attract (has already begun to attract) urbanite residents from nearby Louisville, Kentucky's largest urban center, who can be expected to bring urban values concerning education, as well as other areas. To assess probable directions of change, a school in an upper middle class suburb of Louisville, the sort of milieu from which most new residents will come, was also studied. This research is another step in the program "Anthropological analysis of sociocultural benefits and costs of stream-control devices."

Publication Date

1-1973

Report Number

60

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/kwrri.rr.60

Funding Information

The work on which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the Office of Water Resources Research, United States Department of the Interior, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.

Repository Citation

Smith, Charles R. and Drucker, Philip, "Social and Cultural Impact of a Proposed Reservoir on a Rural Kentucky School District" (1973). KWRRI Research Reports. 135.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kwrri_reports/135