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Invitation to Environmental Sociology by Isaac Leslie, Loka L. Ashwood, Laura Hanson Schlachter and Michael Mayerfeld Bell (2020, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-101506366015
ISBN-139781506366012
eBay Product ID (ePID)23038542569
Product Key Features
Number of Pages504 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameInvitation to Environmental Sociology
SubjectSociology / General, Ecology
Publication Year2020
TypeTextbook
AuthorIsaac Leslie, Loka L. Ashwood, Laura Hanson Schlachter, Michael Mayerfeld Bell
Subject AreaNature, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight28 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number6
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2020-031056
TitleLeadingAn
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal363.7
Table Of ContentPrefaceAbout the AuthorsChapter 1: Environmental Problems and Society Joining the Dialogue Environmental Justice Across Time Environmental Justice Across Social Space Environmental Justice Across Species The Social Constitution of Environmental Problems and SolutionsPart I: The MaterialChapter 2: Health and Justice The Material Basis of the Human Condition One Health One Justice Living Downstream: The Precautionary Principle Making TiesChapter 3: Consumption and Materialism The Hierarchy of Needs Consumption, Modern Style Goods and Sentiments Goods and Community The Treadmill of ConsumptionChapter 4: Money and Markets The Growth Compulsion The "Invisible Elbow" Overproduction and Underproduction The Constructed Market Rock Steady Farm and the Economics of OptimismChapter 5: Technology and Science The Monologues of Technology and Science Technology as a Dialogue Technological Somnambulism Science as Dialogue Disasters, Fast and Slow Science and Technology as PoliticalChapter 6: Population and Development The Malthusian Argument Population as Culture The Inequality Critique of Malthusianism The Technologic Critique of Malthusianism The Demographic Critique of Malthusianism The Environment as a Social ActorPart II: The IdealChapter 7: The Ideology of Environmental Domination Christianity and Environmental Domination Individualism and Environmental Domination Heteropatriarchy and Environmental Domination The Difference That Ideology MakesChapter 8: The Ideology of Environmental Concern Ancient Beginnings The Moral Basis of Contemporary Environmental Concern The Extent of Contemporary Environmental Concern Two Theories of Contemporary Environmental Concern The Dialogue of Environmental Concern PostscriptChapter 9: The Human Nature of Nature The Contradictions of Nature Nature as a Social Construction Environment as a Social Construction The Dialogue of Nature and IdeologyPart III. The PracticalChapter 10: Mobilizing the Just Ecological Society Mobilizing Ecological Conceptions Mobilizing Ecological Connections Mobilizing Ecological Contestations The Pros of the Three ConsChapter 11: Transitioning to the Just Ecological Society Democracy and Bureaucracy Legal Structure The Bottom and the Top Participatory Governance Local Knowledge Governing Participation Grounding Our Knowledge Soul Fire Farm and Just Ecological Transition Finding Our BalanceChapter 12: Living in the Just Ecological Society The A-B Split The Reconstitution of Daily Life Reconstituting OurselvesReferencesNotesIndex
SynopsisAn Invitation to Environmental Sociology invites students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, the authors cover a broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts., If there were ever a time for environmental sociology, it is now. As COVID-19 is spreading across our communities, our countries, our world, we have all become too familiar with maintaining that awful term of "social distance." Yet there can be no true distance from that which is always with us and within us: our social ecology An Invitation to Environmental Sociology invites students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, the authors cover a broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts. The books unique organization explores three different kinds of questions about interactions between humans and the natural world: the material, the ideal, and the practical. The Sixth Edition of this bestseller comprises 12 chapters instead of 13, making it easier to fit into the normal rhythm of a course. But the result is also an edition that is up-to-date and enriched with much newer material, while continuing to use an inviting tone that the title promises. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint(R) slides., An Invitation to Environmental Sociology covers a broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a passion rarely seen in sociology texts. The book's unique organization explores three different kinds of questions about interactions between humans and the natural world: the material, the ideal, and the practical. The Sixth Edition is up-to-date and enriched with new material while continuing to use the engaging tone that the title promises. New To This Edition: Two additional co-authors bring valuable new perspectives to the text. The previous "Body and Justice" chapter has been reframed as a new Chapter 2, "Health and Justice." Chapter 7 discusses heteropatriarchy as one of the ideological rationales for environmental domination. The chapter on money and markets examines Rock Steady Farm, a new paradigm of economic and ecological sustainability. New discussions of emerging issues in environmental sociology, such as disappearing species and landscapes and greening our cities, have been added. Book jacket., If there were ever a time for environmental sociology, it is now. As COVID-19 is spreading across our communities, our countries, our world, we have all become too familiar with maintaining that awful term of "social distance." Yet there can be no true distance from that which is always with us and within us: our social ecology An Invitation to Environmental Sociology invites students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, the authors cover a broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts. The books unique organization explores three different kinds of questions about interactions between humans and the natural world: the material, the ideal, and the practical. The Sixth Edition of this bestseller comprises 12 chapters instead of 13, making it easier to fit into the normal rhythm of a course. But the result is also an edition that is up-to-date and enriched with much newer material, while continuing to use an inviting tone that the title promises. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
LC Classification NumberGE195.B46 2021
