Course Outline -- Week 1

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2000

Wk 1 – Overview of Environmental Sociology

Required

Catton, William R. Jr. and Riley E. Dunlap. 1978. "Environmental Sociology: A New Paradigm?" The American Sociologist 13:41-49 (R)

Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton, Jr. 1979. "Environmental Sociology," Annual Review of Sociology 5:243-73 [online] Available: <http://www.jstor.org>

Buttel, Frederick H. 1987. "New Directions in Environmental Sociology," Annual Review of Sociology 13:465-88 [online] Available: <http://www.jstor.org>

Freudenberg, William R. and Robert Gramling. 1989. "The Emergence of Environmental Sociology," Sociological Inquiry 59:439-452

Laska, Shirley. 1993. "Environmental Sociology and the State of the Discipline," Social Forces 72 (1):1-18

Gramling, Robert and William R. Freudenburg. 1996. "Environmental Sociology: Toward a Paradigm for the 21st Century," Sociological Spectrum 16:347-370

Recommended

Woodgate, Graham, "Introduction," pp. 1-17 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Dunlap, Riley E., "The Evolution of Environmental Sociology," pp. 21-39 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Buttel, Frederick H., "Social Institutions and Environmental Change," pp. 40-54 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Norgaard, Richard B., "A Coevolutionary Environmental Sociology," pp. 158-68 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Redclift and Benton, eds., Social Theory and the Global Environment, pp. TBD

Weinberg, Adam. 1994. "Environmental Sociology and the Environmental Movement: Towards Theory of Pragmatic Relationships of Critical Inquiry," The American Sociologist 25:31 ff. (RR)

Other

Bell, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology (V)
Field and Burch, Rural Sociology and the Environment
Humphrey and Buttel, Energy, Environment and Society (V)
Mehta and Ouellet, eds., Environmental Sociology (V)
Schnaiberg and Gould, Environment and Society

Szell, György. 1994. "Technology, Production, Consumption, and the Environment," International Social Science Journal 46(2):213-225 (RR)

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