#1 Required
Readings
1.
Foster, John Bellamy, “Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift:
Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology,” The American Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 105, No. 2, September 1999, pp. 366-405
2.
Goldman, Michael and Rachel A. Schurman, “Closing the ‘Great
Divide’: New Social Theory on Society and Nature,” Annual Review of Sociology,
Vol. 26, 2000, pp. 563-584
3.
Turner, Terisa E. And Leigh Brownhill, “Feminism as Class
Struggle,” in Land and
Oil Wars (textbook).
4.
Murphy, Joseph, “Ecological Modernisation,” Geoforum, No. 31, 2000,
pp. 1-8
Complete and submit a critical
commentary on this unit’s readings.
You will write a 300-500 word commentary. The
commentaries will focus on the unit readings and will include: a restatement of
the arguments of the various readings; an identification of how the reading
illuminates the main concepts introduced in each unit; and a personal
reflection on what was learned and what was missing.
A. Key Concepts
human exemptionalism paradigm
new ecological paradigm
anthropocentric
ecocentric
environmental sociology
metabolic rift
subsistence
ecofeminism
ecological modernization
sociological imagination
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