{"product_id":"society-and-nature-9780877229681","title":"Society and Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeals with the relationships between society and nature. This book attempts to reconstruct social theory in a way that enables it to speak to contemporary environmental issues. Redefining the work of Anthony Giddens in an ecological direction, it analyzes developments in biological thinking that seem consistent with this approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Introduction 1. Science, Social Science, Politics and the Environment: Some Unhelpful Dichotomies  Biological Theory and the Environment *  Social Theory and the Environment *  Conclusion: Towards an Eclectic but Unified Approach *  Notes 2. People, Nature and Social Theory  People and Nature in Early Sociological Theory: Evolutionism as a False Lead *  Tonnies: From Land and Community to Society *  Modernity, Community and Human Nature: The Chicago School of Sociology *  From Biologism to Functionalism *  People and Environment: The Arguments of Later Marxism *  Conclusion: Society, Nature and Social Theory *  Notes 3. 'Nature as Man's Inorganic Body': Marx's Conceptual Framework  Nature, Alienation and People: The Early Marxian Perspective *  Marxism and the Environment: Continuing Developments and Debates *  Marx and Engels on People and Nature: An Assessment and Comparison with Existing Environmental Analysis *  Developing Marx's Approach *  Notes 4. Arguments within Biology: From Neo-Darwinism to the Study of Organisms and Their Environments  A Methodological Issue *  The Neo-Darwinian Revolution *  Socioecology: Organisms in Ecological Context *  Organism and Environment: The Emergent 'New Biology' *  Notes 5. 'Nature as Alive': Social Relations and Deep Mental Structures  The Evolution of Mind *  Biology and the Problematic Notion of 'Culture' *  The Mind: Eroding the Culture-Nature Distinction *  An Understanding of the Biologically Evolved Mind *  Social Relations and Nature as 'Alive' *  Alienation and Fetishisation: Returning to the Yanomami Case Study *  'Women as Nature': Consciousness, Natural Differences and Environmentalism *  Notes 6. Spreading 'Man's Inorganic Body': Some Implications  Space, Time and Modernity: Aspects of Giddens' Account *  Society and Nature: Developing and Using Giddens' Analysis *  Nature and the Time-Space Distanciation of Social Life *  Time-Space Distanciation Combining with Alienation: The Instance of Food and Health *  Time-Space Distanciation, Consumption and the Reification of 'Nature' *  Notes 7. Nature Reified: A Contemporary Case Study  Notes 8. Society and Nature: From Theory to Practice  Realism: Some Areas of Debate *  From Theory to Practice *  Notes Epilogue  Index","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039017861463,"sku":"9780877229681","price":63.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780877229681.jpg?v=1750942292","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/society-and-nature-9780877229681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}