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This accomplished book argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation. It asks whether there is an emerging consensus between social scientists on the central issues in the debate on environmental change, and if concerns about the environment constitute a major prop to the process of globalization? The book provides a thorough discussion of the central themes in environmental sociology, identifying two traditions: ecological modernization theory and risk society theory.
Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology: Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society
Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology: Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society
Introduction
Sociology has long had something of an ambivalent relationship to the classical tradition, even if this is seldom explicitly acknowledged. On the one hand, the continued importance of the classical tradition in formal terms can be gauged by the fact that classical theory remains a core requirement in most undergraduate and graduate sociology programs throughout the Western world. A PhD-holding sociologist would be considered incompetent if s/he did not know the basics of the sociologies of Marx, ...
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