Title: Early Environmental Sociology: American Classics and their Reflections on Nature
Abstract: In this paper an attempt is made to identify why and when cer tain ideas of environmental awareness in sociological theory build ing have been en vogue, and when they came to be seen as obso lete, i.e. as 'non-sociological.'The paper recalls some long forgotten contributions to environmental sociology, namely the works of Lester F. Ward, William I. Thomas, William Graham Sumner, Franklin Giddings, as well as the regional and human ecological approaches in the tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology of the 1930s. It also suggests three phases of environmental sociology; the first phase being the time of institutionalization of the field of sociology up to World War I; the second phase being the time be tween the Wars, especially that of the 1930s; and the third phase the onefrom the early 1970s to the present. It is argued that many classics in American sociology have not received the credit they deserve for todays contributions to environmental sociology.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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