Sociological Theory and the Environment

by Dunlap, Riley E.; Buttel, Frederick H.; Dickens, Peter; Gijswijt, August

• ISBN13: 9780742501850
• ISBN10: 074250185X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their natural biophysical environment touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today. At the same time, the book aims to go beyond an inventory of environmental sociological theory by stressing how new ground can be broken in the articulation of environmental sociology with major classical and contemporary sociological theories. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I: Introduction and Overview
Sociological Theory and the Environment: An Overview and Introduction	3	(32)
Frederick H. Buttel
Peter Dickens
Riley E. Dunlap
August Gijswijt
Part II: The Classical Tradition and Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some Observations on Current Controversies	35	(16)
Frederick H. Buttel
A Green Marxism? Labor Processes, Alienation, and the Division of Labor	51	(22)
Peter Dickens
Ecological Materialism and the Sociology of Max Weber	73	(17)
Raymond Murphy
Has the Durkheim Legacy Misled Sociology?	90	(29)
William R. Catton, Jr.
Part III: Environmental Sociology and Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory
Social Theory and the Environment: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective	119	(25)
Elim Papadakis
Dynamic Constellations of the Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology	144	(23)
Peter Wehling
World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis	167	(30)
J. Timmons Roberts
Peter E. Grimes
Part IV: Sociological Theory and Environmental Sociology in the Late 1990s: Modernity, Culture, and the Natural World
Modernity, Politics, and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective	197	(33)
Ornulf Seippel
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles, and the Environment	230	(22)
Elizabeth Shove
Alan Warde
Social Theory and Ecological Politics: Reflexive Modernization or Green Socialism?	252	(22)
Ted Benton
The Social Construction of Environmental Problems: A Theoretical Review and Some Not-Very-Herculean Labors	274	(12)
Steven Yearley
When the Global Meets the Local: Critical Reflections on Reflexive Modernization	286	(25)
Rosemary B. McKechnie
Ian Welsh
Cultural Analysis and Environmental Theory: An Agenda	311	(18)
John Hannigan
Part V: Sociological Paradigms and Environmental Sociology
Paradigms, Theories, and Environmental Sociology	329	(22)
Riley E. Dunlap
Index	351	(4)
About the Contributors	355