An Invitation to Environmental Sociology

Fourth Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4129-9053-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

The Fourth Edition of An Invitation to Environmental Sociology brings out the sociology of environmental possibility, inviting students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, Michael Bell covers the broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology textbooks. With extensively updated material on the environmental situation, this edition challenges readers with the complexity of environmental puzzles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Michael Mayerfeld

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Environmental Problems and Society
Part I: The Material
Chapter 2. Consumption and Materialism
Chapter 3. Money and Machines
Chapter 4. Population and Development
Chapter 5. Body and Health
Part II: The Ideal
Chapter 6. The Ideology of Environmental Domination
Chapter 7. The Ideology of Environmental Concern
Chapter 8. The Human Nature of Nature
Chapter 9. The Rationality of Risk
Part III: The Practical
Chapter 10. Mobilizing the Ecological Society
Chapter 11. Governing the Ecological Society

Über Autor(innen)

Bell, Michael Mayerfeld
Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For his day job, he is principally an environmental sociologist and a social theorist, focusing on dialogics, the sociology of nature, and social justice. These concerns for the world have led him to studies of agroecology, the body, community, consumption, culture, development, food, democracy, economic sociology, gender, inequality, participation, place, politics, rurality, the sociology of music, and more. He is also a part-time composer of grassroots and classical music, and a mandolinist, guitarist, and singer.