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Globalizing Environmental Sociology

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter discusses what a more thoroughly globalized environmental sociology might look like, and the need to re-think more deeply the ways in which we conceptualize environmental sociology. Five challenges are discussed: i) the need to better understand globalization itself and the emergence of new sources and forms of authority; ii) the socially ...
Lidskog, Rolf, Lockie, Stewart
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Anthropocene – a cautious welcome from environmental sociology?

open access: yesEnvironmental Sociology, 2016
This paper concerns the way in which environmental sociologists might approach the concept of ‘the Anthropocene’. As our title suggests, we extend in the paper a cautious welcome to this concept.
Rolf Lidskog   +1 more
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Animals in environmental sociology

2021
It is well established that nonhuman animals have substantial social significance in human society (Arluke & Sanders, 1996; Irvine, 2008; Nibert, 2013). However, some aspects of sociological investigation have not fully engaged with the question of how animals are embedded in human social systems. Wilkie (2015) calls for a reimagining of C.
Linda Kalof, Cameron T. Whitley
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Environmental sociology

2022
Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society.
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From Environmental Sociologies to Environmental Sociology?

Organization & Environment, 2006
U.S. environmental sociology has gone through a very different development path compared with its European counterpart. U.S. environmental sociology was dominant in establishing the field and setting the terms for the development and identity of this subdiscipline. Whereas U.S.
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An Environmental Sociology for the Anthropocene

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2017
Attention to the relationship between nature and society has been a defining feature of environmental sociology since its inception. Early research, incorporating insights from ecology, argued for the need to (1) theorize the causal connections between nature and society and (2) contextualize those connections in terms of biophysical limits resulting ...
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Making environmental sociology sociological

Sociological Spectrum, 1987
Three basic sociological distinctions—viewing the environment as home or place of sustenance, separation of home and workplace, and “thing” work versus “people” work—are used to illuminate such sociological concerns as environmental degradation as a social problem, social specialization and pollution, and the demographic profiles of environmentally ...
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