| Description |
xiv, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Sociology for a new century |
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Sociology for a new century.
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| Contents |
Chap. 1 Environmental problems and society -- Part 1 The material -- Chap. 2 Consumption and materialism -- The materials basis of the human condition -- Consumption, modern style -- Goods and sentiments -- Goods and community -- The treadmill of consumption -- Chap. 3 Money and machines -- The needs of money -- The treadmill of production -- The social creation of treadmills -- The needs of technology -- Technology as a social structure -- Technological somnambulism -- The needs of neither -- Chap. 4 Population and development -- The malthusian argument -- Population as culture -- The inequality critique of malthusianism -- The technologic critique of malthusianism -- The demographic critique of malthusianism -- Part 2 The ideal -- Chap. 5 The ideology of environmental domination -- Christianity and evvironmental domination -- Individualism and environmental domination -- Gender and environmental domination -- The difference that ideology makes |
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Chap. 6 The ideology of environmental concern -- Ancient beginnings -- The moral basis of contemporary environmental concern -- The material basis of contemporary environmental concern -- The democratic basis of contemporary environmental concern -- Community, inequality, and the dialogue of environmental concern -- Chap. 7 The human nature of nature -- The contradictions of nature -- Ancient problems, ancient solutions -- Nature as a social construction -- Environment as a social construction -- Nature and ideology -- Part 3 The practical -- Chap. 8 Organizing the ecological society -- The A-B split -- The problem of collective action -- Dialogue, democracy, and environmental problems -- Reorganizing communities -- Reorganizing our own communities -- Reorganizing societies -- Reorganizing ourselves |
| Summary |
Reconciling positivist and constructionist approaches to environmental sociology, Bell looks at topics ranging from environmental problems through the ideologies of environmental concern and domination to organising the ecological society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-315) and index |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics.
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Environmental responsibility.
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Environmental sociology.
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Environmentalism.
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| LC no. |
97045255 |
| ISBN |
0761985093 |
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9780761985099 |
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