Sociological Theory and the Environment

Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

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

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2001
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461642503
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Part I - INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
• Part II - THE CLASSICAL TRADITION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
• Part III - ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
• Part IV - SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY IN THE LATE 1990s: MODERNITY, CULTURE, AND THE NATURAL WORLD
• Part V - SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
• Index
• About the Contributors