Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary InsightsRiley E. Dunlap 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. |
Contents
Sociological Theory and the Environment An Overview and Introduction | 3 |
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY | 33 |
Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition Some Observations on Current Controversies | 35 |
A Green Marxism? Labor Processes Alienation and the Division of Labor | 51 |
Ecological Materialism and the Sociology of Max Weber | 73 |
Has the Durkheim Legacy Misled Sociology? | 90 |
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND TWENTIETHCENTURY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY | 117 |
Social Theory and the Environment A SystemsTheoretical Perspective | 119 |
Modernity Politics and the Environment A Theoretical Perspective | 197 |
Inconspicuous Consumption The Sociology of Consumption Lifestyles and the Environment | 230 |
Social Theory and Ecological Politics Reflexive Modernization or Green Socialism? | 252 |
The Social Construction of Environmental Problems A Theoretical Review and Some NotVeryHerculean Labors | 274 |
When the Global Meets the Local Critical Reflections on Reflexive Modernization | 286 |
Cultural Analysis and Environmental Theory An Agenda | 311 |
SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY | 327 |
Paradigms Theories and Environmental Sociology | 329 |
Dynamic Constellations of the Individual Society and Nature Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology | 144 |
WorldSystem Theory and the Environment Toward a New Synthesis | 167 |
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY IN THE LATE 1990s MODERNITY CULTURE AND THE NATURAL WOR... | 195 |
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