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Jul 27, 2013 · We conclude with a consideration of new directions environmental sociologists might take toward building an even more robust, interdisciplinary, and critical area of study.
- David N. Pellow, Hollie Nyseth Brehm
- 2013
We conclude with a consideration of new directions environmental sociologists might take toward building an even more robust, interdisciplinary, and critical area of study.
We conclude with a consideration of new directions environmental sociologists might take toward building an even more robust, interdisciplinary, and critical area of study. AB - Environmental sociology has become a mature field within the discipline of sociology.
- David N. Pellow, Hollie Nyseth Brehm
- Annual Review of Sociology
- 2013
- 22
We conclude with a consideration of new directions environmental sociologists might take toward building an even more robust, interdisciplinary, and critical area of study. INTRODUCTION.
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- Social Constructionism and Critical Realism
- Structure and Agency Dynamics
- Historical Analysis and Historical Specificity
- The Necessity of Collective Action
Sociology highlights that the norms, values, and generalized assumptions that often appear as common sense to most people are socially produced or constructed and particular to specific times and places. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann explain that “the developing human being not only interrelates with a particular natural environment, but with a ...
Social structures exist and they are both socially constructed and real. They are “recursively organized sets of rules and resources” that are socially produced, reproduced, and patterned across space and time . Sociological thought begins from the recognition that social forces act upon individuals in ways that are beyond immediate recognition and...
Analyzing structure and agency are crucial for understanding individual behavior in the social order, what Mills referred to as the relationship between “history and biography” . Social structures involve historical processes that emerge, persist, and change and, in that sense, they are sedimented institutions. The work of the founders of sociologi...
As a solutions-oriented field, sustainability science underscores the potential for social change and transformations for meeting sustainability goals. The centrality of social structures in generating and perpetuating sustainability problems, and the limited capacity of individuals in isolation to change social structures, means that addressing su...
- Stefano B. Longo, Stefano B. Longo, Ellinor Isgren, Brett Clark, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Anne Jerneck, ...
- 2021
Oct 1, 2006 · A current debate on environmental sociology involves how the subdiscipline should conceptualise and investigate the environment and whether it should be prescriptive and deliver policy ...
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Nov 2, 2021 · We argue, however, that environmental sociologists can make even more significant contributions to socio-ecological systems by more explicitly engaging the interdisciplinary literatures surrounding sustainable development, resilience, regenerative development, and systems thinking.
