Course Outline

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2000

Introduction

Wk 1 – Overview of Environmental Sociology

Foundations

Wk 2 – Marx: Structures of Accumulation & the Environment

Wk 3 – Weber: Bureaucracy, Rationalization & the Environment

Wk 4 – Consumption & the Environment

Institutions

Wk 5 – Industrialization, Urbanization

Wk 6 – Society & Natural Resources

Wk 7 – The Environmental State

Wk 8 – Contemporary Environmental Movements

Nature, Culture, Justice

Wk 9 – Social Constructionism

Special guest: Dr. Theodore Tsoukalas, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco

Wk 10 – Risks, Hazards & Disasters

Wk 11 – Environmental Justice

Prognoses & Prescriptions

Wk 12 – Is Capitalism Sustainable?

Special guest:  Dr.ir. Arthur P.J. Mol, Dept. of Sociology, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Wk 13 – Reflexive Modernization

Wk 14 – Ecological Modernization

Conclusion

Wk 15 – Student Presentations