The Social Construction of Nature
Title | The Social Construction of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Eder |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Limited |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1996-10-14 |
Genre | Nature |
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This is a unique and agenda-setting interpretation of nature and ecology that will become the essential reference in any debate on environmental politics and sociology.
The Social Construction of Reality
Title | The Social Construction of Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Peter L. Berger |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2011-04-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1453215468 |
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Thinking like a Mall
Title | Thinking like a Mall PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Vogel |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 295 |
Release | 2016-09-02 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0262529718 |
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment. Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the “environment”—that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall. Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration from environmental thinkers as do mountains. Vogel argues provocatively that environmental philosophy, in its ethics, should no longer draw a distinction between the natural and the artificial and, in its politics, should abandon the idea that something beyond human practices (such as “nature”) can serve as a standard determining what those practices ought to be. The appeal to nature distinct from the built environment, he contends, may be not merely unhelpful to environmental thinking but in itself harmful to that thinking. The question for environmental philosophy is not “how can we save nature?” but rather “what environment should we inhabit, and what practices should we engage in to help build it?”
The Social Construction of Nature
Title | The Social Construction of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Eder |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Limited |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1996-10-14 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
This is a unique and agenda-setting interpretation of nature and ecology that will become the essential reference in any debate on environmental politics and sociology.
The Social Construction of What?
Title | The Social Construction of What? PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Hacking |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1999-05-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780674812000 |
Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.
The Social Creation of Nature
Title | The Social Creation of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Lorne Leslie Neil Evernden |
Publisher | Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 1992-10 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
The book traces the evolution of the concept of "nature" over the past five centuries. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings, it also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature, in order to defend what is actually imperiled - "wildness".
The Social Construction of the Ocean
Title | The Social Construction of the Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | Philip E. Steinberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2001-10-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521010573 |
This 2001 book discusses the changing uses, regulations and representation of the sea from 1450 to now.