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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Murphy, Raymond, 1943- Sociology and nature. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997 (OCoLC)605197661 Online version: Murphy, Raymond, 1943- Sociology and nature. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997 (OCoLC)605197704 Online version: Murphy, Raymond, 1943- Sociology and nature. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997 (OCoLC)609923221 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Raymond Murphy |
| ISBN: | 0813328659 9780813328652 0813328667 9780813328669 |
| OCLC Number: | 36662836 |
| Description: | xiii, 321 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Sociology as if Nature Did Not Matter: An Ecological Critique -- 2. The Sociological Construction of Science Without Nature -- 3. Sociological Misunderstandings Concerning Nature -- 4. Weaknesses of Sociological Analyses of the Context of Social Action -- 5. Toward the Analysis of Social Action in Its Context -- 6. Material Risks -- 7. Social Risks Resulting from the Manipulation of Nature -- 8. Political Economy -- 9. Society and Culture -- 10. Victims of the Monopolization of the Natural Environment -- 11. Parallels with Other Theories -- 12. Posthumanism. |
| Responsibility: | Raymond Murphy. |
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Abstract:
"Humanity's success in manipulating nature destabilizes the natural support system of society on a planetary scale and, in turn, destabilizes all of society's institutions. Murphy argues that society can now be understood only in terms of the interaction between social action and the processes of nature because the manipulation of nature has become so central to modern society. The growing awareness that social constructions unleash dynamic processes of nature - processes beyond human control that bear on social action - has the potential of radically transforming sociology. Sociology and Nature proposes the reconstruction of sociology in which nature does matter, developing a novel sociological approach that situates social action in its natural context."--BOOK JACKET.
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