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Frederick H. Buttel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • environmental Sociology and the Sociology of natural resources institutional histories and intellectual legacies
    Society & Natural Resources, 2002
    Co-Authors: Frederick H. Buttel
    Abstract:

    While environmental Sociology and the Sociology of natural resources nominally focus on the same subject matters, in practice the literatures in the two subdisciplines have tended to be quite separate intellectual enterprises. Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of natural resources have different origins, their practitioners tend to have distinctive institutional locations, their problematics are different, and their theoretical tendencies differ considerably. I provide an overview of the divergent courses that have been taken within these two areas of inquiry, with stress on their institutional histories and intellectual legacies.

  • Environmental Sociology and global environmental change: A critical assessment
    Society & Natural Resources, 1992
    Co-Authors: Frederick H. Buttel, Peter J. Taylor
    Abstract:

    Abstract Arguing that the phenomenon of global environmental change has received inadequate attention within environmental Sociology and that the predominant approach of environmental Sociology to global change has been limited, this article suggests several new perspectives. Environmental Sociology must give more attention to the social construction of environmental knowledge, by building on and transcending the debates within the Sociology of science of the past 15 years. At the same time, environmental Sociology must rethink its theories that give analytical priority to the nation‐state and to national units of analysis. These principles are illustrated through analyses of the role of global constructions of environmental knowledge and the recent politics of global environmental change.

Richard Swedberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the handbook of economic Sociology second edition
    2010
    Co-Authors: Neil J. Smelser, Richard Swedberg
    Abstract:

    The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic Sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic Sociology, soon established itself as the definitive presentation of the field, and has been widely read, reviewed, and adopted. Since then, the field of economic Sociology has continued to grow by leaps and bounds and to move into new theoretical and empirical territory. The second edition, while being as all-embracing in its coverage as the first edition, represents a wholesale revamping. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg have kept the main overall framework intact, but nearly two-thirds of the chapters are new or have new authors. As in the first edition, they bring together leading sociologists as well as representatives of other social sciences. But the thirty chapters of this volume incorporate many substantial thematic changes and new lines of research--for example, more focus on international and global concerns, chapters on institutional analysis, the transition from socialist economies, organization and networks, and the economic Sociology of the ancient world. The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the definitive resource on what continues to be one of the leading edges of Sociology and one of its most important interdisciplinary adventures. It is a must read for all faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates doing work in the field. A thoroughly revised and updated version of the most comprehensive treatment of economic Sociology available. Almost two-thirds of the chapters are new or have new authors. Authors include leading sociologists as well as representatives of other social sciences Substantial thematic changes and new lines of research, including more focus on international and global concerns, institutional analysis, the transition from socialist economies, and organization and networks. The definitive resource on what continues to be one of the leading edges of Sociology and one of its most important interdisciplinary adventures. A must read for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates doing work in the field. Neil J. Smelser was formerly University Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was on faculty from 1958 to 1994, and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1994-2001). He is the coauthor (with Talcott Parsons) of Economy and Society and the author of The Sociology of Economic Life. Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He is the author of Principles of Economic Sociology and Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (both Princeton) and the coeditor of The Economic Sociology of Capitalism.

  • Max Weber's Interpretive Economic Sociology
    American Behavioral Scientist, 2007
    Co-Authors: Richard Swedberg
    Abstract:

    Economic Sociology needs more ideas, and in this article the author suggests that economic sociologists may want to explore what a rigorous interpretive economic Sociology along Weberian lines would look like. One way to proceed in an enterprise of this type would be to apply the model of analysis that can be found in chapter 1 of Economy and Society to economic Sociology and its problems. This means that one has to graft onto economic Sociology such key ideas and key concepts in Weber's interpretive Sociology as adequate causation, the need to always explore the meaning of actors, and what consequences these meanings have for the resulting action. What a concrete Weberian type of interpretive economic Sociology will be like cannot, however, be determined this way. It needs instead to be worked out through concrete, empirical analysis.

  • the handbook of economic Sociology
    Foreign Affairs, 1994
    Co-Authors: Neil J. Smelser, Richard Swedberg
    Abstract:

    During recent years social scientists have come to reaffirm that understanding almost any facet of social life requires a simultaneous understanding of how economic institutions work and how they are influenced by values and norms. Sociology, and especially economic Sociology, is well equipped to be of assistance in this endeavor. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg bring together leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, the first comprehensive view of this vital and growing field.During recent years social scientists have come to reaffirm that understanding almost any facet of social life requires a simultaneous understanding of how economic institutions work and how they are influenced by values and norms. Sociology, and especially economic Sociology, is well equipped to be of assistance in this endeavor. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg bring together leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, the first comprehensive view of this vital and growing field.

Peter J. Taylor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Environmental Sociology and global environmental change: A critical assessment
    Society & Natural Resources, 1992
    Co-Authors: Frederick H. Buttel, Peter J. Taylor
    Abstract:

    Abstract Arguing that the phenomenon of global environmental change has received inadequate attention within environmental Sociology and that the predominant approach of environmental Sociology to global change has been limited, this article suggests several new perspectives. Environmental Sociology must give more attention to the social construction of environmental knowledge, by building on and transcending the debates within the Sociology of science of the past 15 years. At the same time, environmental Sociology must rethink its theories that give analytical priority to the nation‐state and to national units of analysis. These principles are illustrated through analyses of the role of global constructions of environmental knowledge and the recent politics of global environmental change.

Aldon D Morris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • w e b du bois at the center from science civil rights movement to black lives matter
    British Journal of Sociology, 2017
    Co-Authors: Aldon D Morris
    Abstract:

    I am honoured to present the 2016 British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture at the London School of Economics. My lecture is based on ideas derived from my new book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. In this essay I make three arguments. First, W.E.B. Du Bois and his Atlanta School of Sociology pioneered scientific Sociology in the United States. Second, Du Bois pioneered a public Sociology that creatively combined Sociology and activism. Finally, Du Bois pioneered a politically engaged social science relevant for contemporary political struggles including the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement.

  • w e b du bois at the center from science civil rights movement to black lives matter
    British Journal of Sociology, 2017
    Co-Authors: Aldon D Morris
    Abstract:

    I am honoured to present the 2016 British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture at the London School of Economics. My lecture is based on ideas derived from my new book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. In this essay I make three arguments. First, W.E.B. Du Bois and his Atlanta School of Sociology pioneered scientific Sociology in the United States. Second, Du Bois pioneered a public Sociology that creatively combined Sociology and activism. Finally, Du Bois pioneered a politically engaged social science relevant for contemporary political struggles including the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement.

  • The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
    2015
    Co-Authors: Aldon D Morris
    Abstract:

    Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race and the Birth of American Sociology 1. The Rise of Scientific Sociology in America 2. Du Bois, Scientific Sociology, and Race 3. The Du Bois--Atlanta School of Sociology 4. The Conservative Alliance of Washington and Park 5. The Sociology of Black America: Park versus Du Bois 6. Max Weber Meets Du Bois 7. Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School 8. Legacies and Conclusions Notes References Illustration Credits Index

Courtney G. Flint - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • toward a transdisciplinary environmental and resource Sociology in china
    Society & Natural Resources, 2010
    Co-Authors: Hua Qin, Courtney G. Flint
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    Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of natural resources constitute two research traditions regarding the interactions between societies and the natural world. While discussion of the relationships between these two fields is largely restricted to the United States, their implications for developing disciplines focused on environment and society issues in other countries have seldom been addressed. In this article we introduce the dialogue between environmental Sociology and the Sociology of natural resources into the context of China, where environmental Sociology is being established as an important academic subdiscipline. We suggest that with a transdisciplinary orientation, environmental Sociology in China holds promise for integrating environmental and natural resource sociologies in responding to China's strategic goal of building a “resource-efficient and environment-friendly” society.

  • A Review of Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Insights for the Development of Environmental Sociology in China
    Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment, 2009
    Co-Authors: Qin Hua, Courtney G. Flint
    Abstract:

    Abstract Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of natural resources are two key subdisciplines of the sociological study on the interactions between nature and human society. Previous discussion on the relationships of these two fields has largely focused on their distinctions and synthesis in western (particularly American) academia. Environmental Sociology emerged as an important sociological subdiscipline in China in the early 1990s and is under vigorous disciplinary construction at present. By contrast, the Sociology of natural resources is still a novel term for most Chinese researchers. This article provides a systematic review of recent literature on the relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies, which should provide important implications for the further development of environmental Sociology in China.