Sociological Theory and the Environment (eBook, PDF)

Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights
Redaktion: Dunlap, Riley E.; Gijswijt, August; Dickens, Peter; Buttel, Frederick H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sociological Theory and the Environment is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their 'natural' biophysical environment. This book touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today-classical and twentieth century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, globalization and development, reflexive modernization, ecological modernization vs. 'limits' viewpoints, modernity and post modernity, risk society, constructionalism-realism, environmental movements/identities, consumption and environment, cultural sociologies of the environment, and so on. At the same time, the book aims to go beyond an inventory of environmental sociological theory. Sociological Theory and the Environment stresses how new ground can be broken in the articulation of environmental sociology with major classical and contemporary sociological theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216244424
• Artikelnr.: 75139021

Autorenporträt

Riley E. Dunlap is Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology at Washington State University and past president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Environment and Society. Frederick H. Buttel is professor of rural sociology and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently president of the Environment and Society Research Committee of the International Sociological Association. Peter Dickens is senior research fellow, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also fellow and director of studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. August Gijswijt retired as an environmental sociologist from the University of Amsterdam in 1998. In 1990 he and Gyorgy Szell founded the Research Committee on Environment and Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 I Introduction and Overview Chapter 3 1 Sociological
Theory and the Environment: An Overview and Introduction Part 4 II The
Classical Tradition and Environmental Sociology Chapter 5 2 Environmental
Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some Observations on
Current Controversies Chapter 6 3 A Green Marxism? Labor-Processes,
Alienation, and the Division of Labor Chapter 7 4 Ecological Materialism
and the Sociology of Max Weber Chapter 8 5 Has the Durkheim Legacy Misled
Sociology? Part 9 III Environmental Sociology and Twentieth Century
Sociological Theory Chapter 10 6 Social Theory and the Environment: A
Systems-Theoretical Perspective Chapter 11 7 Dynamic Constellations of the
Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental
Sociology Chapter 12 8 World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a
New Synthesis Part 13 IV Sociological Theory and Environmental Sociology in
the Late 1990s: Modernity, Culture, and the Natural World Chapter 14 9
Modernity, Politics, and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective Chapter
15 10 Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles,
and the Environment Chapter 16 11 Social Theory and Ecological Politics:
Reflexive Modernization or Green Socialism? Chapter 17 12 The Social
Construction of Environmental Problems: A Theoretical Review and Some
Not-Very Herculean Labors Chapter 18 13 When the Global Meet the Local:
Critical Reflections on Reflexive Modernisation Chapter 19 14 Cultural
Analysis and Environmental Theory: An Agenda Part 20 V Sociological
Paradigms and Environmental Sociology Chapter 21 15 Paradigms, Theories,
and Environmental Sociology Part 22 Index Part 23 About the Editors 24
About the Contributors