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Jul 8, 2015 · It is generally accepted that environmental sociology is concerned with the reciprocal relationships between environment and society. It is also generally accepted that this is, in important ways, different to a ‘sociology of the environment’ based on the application of mainstream sociological concepts to environmental conflict, politics ...
- Full article: Conceptual innovation in environmental sociology
As Lidskog, Mol and Oosterveer (Citation 2015) claim in...
- Full article: Conceptual innovation in environmental sociology
has propelled a great deal of scholarship and has been central for transforming environmental sociology from a fringe pursuit to a core part of the discipline (Scott and Johnson 2017). Over the past 40 years, environmental sociologists have used materialist approaches to illuminate capital-
Environmental sociology has become a mature field within the discipline of sociology. We consider several of the key theories that define the core and boundaries of the field, calling attention to debates and unresolved questions. We contend that two of the defining features of this field are (a) attention to the inseparability of human and nonhuman natures and (b) attention to the role that ...
Oct 31, 2023 · Urban sociology is a site where the epistemological and political consequences of the larger discipline’s relationship to understood-to-be external nature are sharply visible. This is evident in the segregation of “social” from “environmental” questions and larger bifurcation of city/nature and urban/rural issues.
Nov 21, 2016 · As Lidskog, Mol and Oosterveer (Citation 2015) claim in their plea for a global environmental sociology, environmental sociologists have a mission to collaborate with different contexts and disciplines, thereby making environmental sociology better equipped to investigate and understand the challenges that environmental issues imply. By appropriating concepts from other disciplines ...
- Rolf Lidskog, Claire Frances Jane Waterton
- 2016
Aug 1, 2014 · These different conceptualisations of the environment lead some US environmental sociologists to interpret European environmental sociology as ‘non-realist’ due to its ignorance of biophysical aspects of reality, whereas European environmental sociologists view some of their US counterparts as unreflexive, as failing to see that all knowledge claims – including those produced by the ...
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Fourth, environmental sociologists are concerned with understanding social processes and dynamics that could advance environmental reform and sustainability. In general, environmental sociology has tended to focus more on explaining how society causes environmental problems while paying less attention to potential solutions, but a shift has taken place in recent decades.
