Towards a global environmental sociology? Legacies, trends and future directions

被引:26
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作者
Lidskog, Rolf [1 ]
Mol, Arthur P. J. [2 ]
Oosterveer, Peter [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Orebro, Sociol, Orebro, Sweden
[2] Wageningen Univ, Environm Policy, NL-6700 AP Wageningen, Netherlands
关键词
Climate change; environmental sociology; globalisation; global sociology; public sociology; ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; SOCIETY; SUSTAINABILITY; REFLECTIONS; SCIENCE; PERSPECTIVE; GOVERNANCE; DIVIDE; RIFT;
D O I
10.1177/0011392114543537
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
A current debate on environmental sociology involves how the subdiscipline should conceptualise and investigate the environment and whether it should be prescriptive and deliver policy recommendations. Taking this debate as a point of departure this article discusses the current and future role of sociology in a globalised world. It discusses how environmental sociology in the US and Europe differ in their understandings of sociology's contribution to the study of the environment. Particular stress is placed on how these two regions differ with respect to their use of the tradition of sociological thought, views on what constitutes the environment and ways of institutionalising environmental sociology as a sociological field. In conclusion, the question is raised of whether current versions of environmental sociology are appropriate for analysing a globalised world environment; or whether environmental sociology's strong roots in European and US cultures make it less relevant when facing an increasingly globalised world. Finally, the article proposes some new rules for a global environmental sociology and describes some of their possible implications for the sociological study of climate change. Resume Le debat actuel sur la sociologie de l'environnement porte sur la facon de conceptualiser et d'examiner l'environnement et sur la necessite de proposer une approche normative et des recommandations politiques. partir de ce debat, cet article examine le role actuel et futur de la sociologie dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Il analyse dans quelle mesure les recherches sociologiques de l'environnement aux Etats-Unis et en Europe different dans leur comprehension de la contribution de la sociologie a l'etude de l'environnement. Un accent particulier est mis sur les differences entre les deux regions pour ce qui concerne leur utilisation de la tradition sociologique, leur vision de la nature de l'environnement et leurs moyens d'institutionnaliser la sociologie de l'environnement en tant que domaine de recherche. En conclusion, ce travail souleve la question de savoir si les approches actuelles de la sociologie de l'environnement sont appropriees a l'analyse de l'environnement mondialise et si les origines europeennes et nord-americaines de la sociologie de l'environnement la rendent moins pertinente dans un contexte de mondialisation croissante. Enfin, cet article propose de nouvelles regles pour une sociologie mondiale de l'environnement et met en evidence les incidences possibles des etudes sociologiques sur le changement climatique. Resumen Un debate actual sobre la sociologia ambiental implica como la sub-disciplina debe conceptualizar e investigar el medio ambiente y si debe ser prescriptivo y entregar recomendaciones politicas. Tomando este debate como punto de partida, este trabajo analiza el papel actual y futuro de la sociologia en un mundo globalizado. Se discute como la sociologia ambiental en los EE.UU. y Europa difieren en su comprension de la contribucion de la sociologia al estudio del medio ambiente. Se hace hincapie en como estas dos regiones difieren con respecto al uso de la tradicion del pensamiento sociologico, perspectivas sobre lo que constituye el medio ambiente y las formas de institucionalizacion de la sociologia ambiental como un campo sociologico. En conclusion, se plantea la cuestion de si las versiones actuales de la sociologia ambiental son adecuadas para el analisis de un entorno mundial globalizado, o si el fuerte arraigo de la sociologia del medio ambiente en las culturas europeas y estadounidenses hacen que sea menos relevante cuando enfrentadas a un mundo cada vez mas globalizado. Por ultimo, el trabajo propone algunas nuevas reglas para una sociologia del medio ambiente mundial y describe algunas de sus posibles implicaciones para el estudio sociologico del cambio climatico.
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