Sociological theory and the environment : classical foundations, contemporary insights /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2002. |
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| Description: | viii, 357 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4603886 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction and Overview
- 1. Sociological Theory and the Environment: An Overview and Introduction
- Part II. The Classical Tradition and Environmental Sociology
- 2. Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some Observations on Current Controversies
- 3. A Green Marxism? Labor Processes, Alienation, and the Division of Labor
- 4. Ecological Materialism and the Sociology of Max Weber
- 5. Has the Durkheim Legacy Misled Sociology?
- Part III. Environmental Sociology and Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory
- 6. Social Theory and the Environment: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective
- 7. Dynamic Constellations of the Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology
- 8. World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis
- Part IV. Sociological Theory and Environmental Sociology in the Late 1990s: Modernity, Culture, and the Natural World
- 9. Modernity, Politics, and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective
- 10. Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles, and the Environment
- 11. Social Theory and Ecological Politics: Reflexive Modernization or Green Socialism?
- 12. The Social Construction of Environmental Problems: A Theoretical Review and Some Not-Very-Herculean Labors
- 13. When the Global Meets the Local: Critical Reflections on Reflexive Modernization
- 14. Cultural Analysis and Environmental Theory: An Agenda
- Part V. Sociological Paradigms and Environmental Sociology
- 15. Paradigms, Theories, and Environmental Sociology
- Index
- About the Contributors