{"product_id":"society-and-nature-changing-our-environment-changing-ourselves-paperback-softback-9780745627960","title":"Society and Nature; Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745627960","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSociety and Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChanging Our Environment, Changing Ourselves\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Dickens (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745627960, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 January 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.531 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Offers a multi-disciplinary, well-rounded theoretical discussion of the interdependent relationship between humans and the natural world.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Dickens presents his own original and significant analysis of relationships between social and biological dynamics and identities. I recommend enthusiastically that this book be read.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRaymond Murphy, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Presents the author's own highly original analysis of relations between society and nature based on a Maxist and critical realist perspective. The book also provides a valuable overview and critique of much classical and contemporary sociology.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnvironment and Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSociety and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, by British sociologist Peter Dickens, offers a rare blend of scholarship. Its narrative is both authoritative, yet accessible. Its content is broad and comprehensive in scope, while managing to still provide an important contribution to the field of enviromental sociology (among others). It is both a textbook, for undergraduates and individuals new to the field, and a rigorous work of scholarship in its own right. In bringing this together, Dickens is to be commended for his ability to weave in and out of a diverse array of literatures - from enviromental sociology, to the sociology of technology, social theory, evolutionary sociology, molecular and developmental biology and cognitive psychology. In all, \u003ci\u003eSociety and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the field of enviromental sociology. Dickens' shows us, in rather dramatic fashion, just how intertwined the social and natural realms are.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrganisation and Enviroment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This is a valuable and scholarly book, packed with ideas for further reading. It contains a great deal of knowledge and scholarly understanding, rendered down into bite-sized chunks. It would make an excellent student text ... yet will inform many research level debates.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBill Adams, \u003ci\u003eArea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A useful addition to the bookshelves of anyone who has even a passing interest in the new governance of the environment, not just students.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSociety and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDickens' insight won his work the American Sociological Association's Outstanding Publication Award 2006, in the Environment and Technology section.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eThis Book and How to Use It.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Society, Nature and Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Nature, Changing Ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Age of Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnlightenment’s Shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Age of Enlightenment and This Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introducing Key Themes:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributions from Evolutionary Thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decline of Community?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustry and Production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Risk Society?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Industry and Environmental Transformation:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustry and Humanity’s Metabolism with Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Evolution, Biological Evolution and Marx.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk and the Metabolic Rift.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity: a New Basis for Industrial Production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Commodifying the Environment:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommodification and Industry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommodification and Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommodifying Evolution?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommodification and ‘Manufactured Risk’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Consumption, The Environment and Human Identity:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociety and Nature: Over-Consumption as the Problem?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption and the Making of Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The Consumer Society’: the Final Stage of Social Evolution?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustry and Consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Risk Society: Poverty and Industry as the Issue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Industrial Change, the Network Society and Human Identity:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Evolved Human Nature?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustrial Development, the Network Society and Changes to Human Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Network Society and Virtual Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychic Structure, Network Society and Evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostfordism, the Network Society and Risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Modifying Human Biology:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustrialising Birth, Improving Humans?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImproving on Evolution: Genes and the Good Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity and Human Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Transformation and The Risk Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Society, Nature and Citizenship:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociety, Politics and Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Rights?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustry and Citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCitizenship as Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCitizenship as Risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Society, Nature and the New Social Movements:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Social Movements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Evolution and Risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Social Movements: Revealing and Making Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Evolution and the Recovery of Human Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Terms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52474958250264,"sku":"9780745627960","price":17.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745627960.jpg?v=1785801923","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/society-and-nature-changing-our-environment-changing-ourselves-paperback-softback-9780745627960","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}