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| Part I: Introduction and Overview |
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Sociological Theory and the Environment: An Overview and Introduction |
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| Part II: The Classical Tradition and Environmental Sociology |
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Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some Observations on Current Controversies |
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A Green Marxism? Labor Processes, Alienation, and the Division of Labor |
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Ecological Materialism and the Sociology of Max Weber |
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Has the Durkheim Legacy Misled Sociology? |
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| Part III: Environmental Sociology and Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory |
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Social Theory and the Environment: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective |
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Dynamic Constellations of the Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology |
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World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis |
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| Part IV: Sociological Theory and Environmental Sociology in the Late 1990s: Modernity, Culture, and the Natural World |
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Modernity, Politics, and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective |
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles, and the Environment |
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Social Theory and Ecological Politics: Reflexive Modernization or Green Socialism? |
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The Social Construction of Environmental Problems: A Theoretical Review and Some Not-Very-Herculean Labors |
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When the Global Meets the Local: Critical Reflections on Reflexive Modernization |
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Cultural Analysis and Environmental Theory: An Agenda |
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| Part V: Sociological Paradigms and Environmental Sociology |
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Paradigms, Theories, and Environmental Sociology |
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| Index |
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| About the Contributors |
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