An Invitation to Environmental Sociology / Edition 2

by Michael Mayerfeld Bell

Overview

Author Michael Mayerfeld Bell uses a lively, personal writing style to take readers on a series of field trips through the vast landscape of environmental sociology. The Second Edition of An Invitation to Environmental Sociology analyzes the relevance of social theory with a social, community perspective for resolving the practical issues of our environmental problems. The author explores three elements of environmental sociology - the material, the ideal, and the practical. In order to unite these three topics, the book examines the interplay of material and ideal factors through the central concept of "ecological dialogue."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761987758
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/01/2004
Series:	Sociology for a New Century Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Environmental Problems and Society
The Material
Consumption and Materialism
Money and Machines
Population and Development
Body and Health
The Ideal
The Ideology of Environmental Domination
The Ideology of Environmental Concern
The Human Nature of Nature
The Rationality of Risk
The Practical
Organizing the Ecological Society