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Tables of Contents for Sociological Theory and the Environment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Part I: Introduction and Overview
Sociological Theory and the Environment: An Overview and Introduction
3
32
Part II: The Classical Tradition and Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some Observations on Current Controversies
35
16
A Green Marxism? Labor Processes, Alienation, and the Division of Labor
51
22
Ecological Materialism and the Sociology of Max Weber
73
17
Has the Durkheim Legacy Misled Sociology?
90
29
Part III: Environmental Sociology and Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory
Social Theory and the Environment: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective
119
25
Dynamic Constellations of the Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology
144
23
World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis
167
30
Part IV: Sociological Theory and Environmental Sociology in the Late 1990s: Modernity, Culture, and the Natural World
Modernity, Politics, and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective
197
33
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles, and the Environment
230
22
Social Theory and Ecological Politics: Reflexive Modernization or Green Socialism?
252
22
The Social Construction of Environmental Problems: A Theoretical Review and Some Not-Very-Herculean Labors
274
12
When the Global Meets the Local: Critical Reflections on Reflexive Modernization
286
25
Cultural Analysis and Environmental Theory: An Agenda
311
18
Part V: Sociological Paradigms and Environmental Sociology
Paradigms, Theories, and Environmental Sociology
329
22
Index
351
4
About the Contributors
355