Sociology Saves the Planet: An Introduction to Socioecological Thinking and Practice Macias Thomas
Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology.Given its focus on…
Specifikacia Sociology Saves the Planet: An Introduction to Socioecological Thinking and Practice Macias Thomas
Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology.Given its focus on inequality and the constituent elements of the social world, sociology has often been accused of negligence regarding the urgency of the world's environmental crisis. Sociology Save the Planet corrects this mis-perception by integrating the theme of environment and society to highlight the intrinsic value a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the current ecological crisis. The author firstly draws out the origins of sociology in the social and ecological transformations of the industrial revolution. In accounting for the social upheavals of the 19th century, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber all provided key insights into the changing nature of human
Introduction to Sociology