Michael Mayerfeld Bell & Loka L. Ashwood 
An Invitation to Environmental Sociology [EPUB ebook] 

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 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 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.






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Preface

About the Authors

Chapter 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 Solutions

Part I: The Material

Chapter 2: Health and Justice

The Material Basis of the Human Condition

One Health

One Justice

Living Downstream: The Precautionary Principle

Making Ties

Chapter 3: Consumption and Materialism

The Hierarchy of Needs

Consumption, Modern Style

Goods and Sentiments

Goods and Community

The Treadmill of Consumption

Chapter 4: Money and Markets

The Growth Compulsion

The “Invisible Elbow”

Overproduction and Underproduction

The Constructed Market

Rock Steady Farm and the Economics of Optimism

Chapter 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 Political

Chapter 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 Actor

Part II: The Ideal

Chapter 7: The Ideology of Environmental Domination

Christianity and Environmental Domination

Individualism and Environmental Domination

Heteropatriarchy and Environmental Domination

The Difference That Ideology Makes

Chapter 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

Postscript

Chapter 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 Ideology

Part III. The Practical

Chapter 10: Mobilizing the Just Ecological Society

Mobilizing Ecological Conceptions

Mobilizing Ecological Connections

Mobilizing Ecological Contestations

The Pros of the Three Cons

Chapter 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 Balance

Chapter 12: Living in the Just Ecological Society

The A-B Split

The Reconstitution of Daily Life

Reconstituting Ourselves

References

Notes

Index

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Laura Hanson Schlachter is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her scholarship and teaching focus on environmental sociology, social movements, and economic sociology. As a mixed methods researcher, Laura has directed the first national survey about workplace democracy, interviewed activists seeding a regenerative economy in Appalachia, and collaborated with village leaders to improve walkability in rural Wisconsin. Laura has a background in inclusive economic development and an ongoing volunteer role at the Madison affiliate of 350.org. Her writing has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals, policy reports, and neighborhood newsletters. Her current research about constructive strategies to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis and alternative ways of organizing work has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation and Corporation for National and Community Service. Learn more at www.lauraschlachter.com.