Environmental Sociology Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Introduction and Overview Sociological Theory and the Environment : An Overview and Introduction .............3 2. The classical Tradition and Environmental Sociology Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some observations on Current Controversies ...............35 A green Marxism? Labor Processes, Alienation, and the Division of Labor ............51 Ecological Materialism and the Sociology of Max weber ................73 Has the Durkheim Legacy misled Sociology........90 3. Environmental Sociology and Twentieth-Century sociological Theory Social Theory and the Environment: A systems - Theoretical Perspective ............119 Dynamic Constellations of the Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology ............144 World-System Theory and the Enviromnet: Toward a new Synthesis ............167 4. Sociological Theory and Environmental Sociology in the late 1990s: modernity, culture, and the Natural World Modernity, politics and the Environment: A theoretical Perspective ........197 Inconspicuous consumption : The sociology of Consumption, lifestyle, and the environment .........230 Social Theory and ecological Politics : Reflexive Modernization or Green Socialism ...........252 The Social Construction of Environmental Problems : A Theoretical review and some Not-Very-Herculean Labors ................274 When the Global Meets the local : Critical Reflections on Reflexive modernization .................286 Cultural Analysis and Envirnmental Theory: An Agenda ................311 5. Sociological paradigms and Environmental Sociology Paradigms, THeories, and Environmental Sociology ..........329