Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Peter Dickens
From the rear cover
Society and Nature is a lively and highly accessible introduction to the sociology of the environment. The book provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary issues and current debates - including society, nature and the enlightenment, industry and environmental transformation, commodification, consumption, the network society and human identity, human biology, citizenship and new social movements.
Combining insights from contemporary sociology, politics, developmental biology and psychology, Peter Dickens suggests that environmental degradation is largely due to humanity's narcissistic demand that the environment be made into a commodity to be consumed. Meanwhile, human biology is also being modified: people's bodies are being rebuilt in ways that reflect their class positions. People and their surroundings have always adapted according to the demands of society. But modern capitalist society is changing the environment and its people in profound, potentially catastrophic, ways, shaping both human and non-human nature in its own image.
The book contains a number of student features to interest and guide the reader as well as an attractive and clear layout. It will be particularly useful for students and teachers of sociology, human ecology, environmental studies and social theory.
Dickens' insight won his work the American Sociological Association's Outstanding Publication Award 2006, in the Environment and Technology section.
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- Title Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves
- Author Peter Dickens
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2004-02-23
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780745627960 / 074562796X
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.66 x 6.74 x 0.91 in (24.54 x 17.12 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Social evolution, Human ecology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003010716
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.4
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