Natural and Epistemological Pragmatism: Democracy and Environmental Problems

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 529-544

  Williams, Jerry ^a  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 10744220439     PISSN: 00380245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-682X.00070     Document Type: Review

References (53)

1. Athanasiou, Tom. 1996. "The Age of Greenwashing." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 7:1-36.
2. Beck, Ulrich. 1992. Risk Society: Toward a New Modernity. London: Sage.
3. _. 2000. What Is Globalization? Maiden, MA: Polity Press.
4. Berger, Peter L. 1963. Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective. New York: Doubleday.
5. _. 1967. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
6. Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1966. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Doubleday.
7. Buttel, Frederick H., William R. Catton, Jr., and Riley E. Dunlap. 1978. "Environmental Sociology: A New Paradigm?" The American Sociologist 13:252-56.
8. Cable, Sherry, and Charles Cable. 1994. Environmental Problems/ Grassroots Solutions: The Politics of Grassroots Environmental Conflict. New York: St. Martin's Press.
9. California Academy of Sciences (CAS). 2001. National Opinion Survey. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company.
10. Capek, Stella M. 1992. "Environmental Justice, Regulation, and the Local Community." International Journal of Health Services 22:729-46.
11. _. 1994. "Communities at Risk: Collective Responses to Technological Hazards." Contemporary Sociology 23:517-18.
12. China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). 1997. Scientific Literacy Report. http:// www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/21108.htm
13. Descartes, René. 1999. Discourse on Method, and Related Writings. Translated by Desmond M. Clarke. London: Penguin Books.
14. Dewey, John. 1920. Reconstruction in Philosophy. Boston: Beacon Press.
15. _. 1976. The Public and Its Problems. Athens, OH: Swallow Press.
16. Dickens, Peter. 1996. Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation, and the Division of Labor. New York: Routledge.
17. Diekmann, Andreas, and Axel Franzen. 1999. "The Wealth of Nations and Environmental Concern." Environment and Behavior 31:540-49.
18. Dietz, Thomas, Paul C. Stem, and Robert W. Rycroft. 1989. "Definitions of Conflict and the Legitimation of Resources: The Case of Environmental Risk." Sociological Forum 4:44-70.
19. Dodd, Susan. 1995. "Restitching Reality: How TNCs Evade Accountability for Industrial Disasters." Alternative Routes 12:23-61.
20. Douglas, Mary, and Aaron Wildavsky. 1982. Risk and Culture: The Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers. Berkeley: University of California Press.
21. Downs, Anthony. 1972. "Up and Down with Ecology - The Issue Attention Cycle." Public Interest 28:38-50.
22. Dunlap, Riley E. 1998. "Lay Perceptions of Global Risk: Public Views of Global Warming in Cross-National Context." International Sociology 13:473-98.
23. Ekins, Paul. 1992. A New World Order: Grassroots Movements for Global Change. London: Routledge.
24. Frey, R. Scott. 1994. "The International Trade in Hazardous Wastes." Journal of Environmental Systems 23:165-77.
25. Gehlen, Arnold. 1988. Man, His Nature and Place in the World. New York: Columbia University Press.
26. Giddens, Anthony. 1979. Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure, and Contradiction in Social Analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press.
27. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 1995. "Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
28. James, William. 1890. The Principles of Psychology. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
29. Marx, Karl. 1978. Karl Marx: Selected Writings. Edited by D. McLellan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
30. Mead, George Herbert, Charles W. Morris, John Monroe Brewster, Albert Millard Dunham, and David L. Miller. 1938. The Philosophy of the Act. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
31. Murphy, Raymond. 1994. Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship. Boulder: Westview Press Inc.
32. Natanson, Maurice Alexander. 1973. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
33. National Opinion Research Center (NORC). 1994. The General Social Survey, http:// www.norc.uchicago.edu/projects/gensoc.asp
34. National Science Foundation (NSF). 1999. Science and Engineering Indicators 2000 Survey. http:// www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind00/start.htm (last accessed 23 July 2003).
35. Novotny, Patrick. 1995. "Where We Live, Work, and Play: Refraining the Cultural Landscape of Environmentalism in the Environmental Justice Movement." New Political Science 32:61-70.
36. Rosa, Eugene. 1998. "Metatheoretical Foundations for Post-Normal Risk." Journal of Risk Research 1:15-44.
37. Saliba, Kimberley D. 1997. "Environmental Policies and Community Activism: The Timber Debate in Oregon." Pp. 171-200 in Research in Community Sociology, vol. 7, edited by D. Chekki. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
38. Schnaiberg, Allan, and Kenneth Alan Gould. 2000. Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict. Caldwell, NJ: Blackburn Press.
39. Schutz, Alfred. 1962a. "Common Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action." Pp. 3-47 in Collected Papers I: Studies in Social Theory, edited by Avid Broderson. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
40. _. 1962b. "Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences." Pp. 207-83 in Collected Papers I: Studies in Social Theory, edited by Avid Broderson. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
41. _. 1962c. "On Multiple Realities." Pp. 207-83 in Collected Papers I: Studies in Social Theory, edited by Avid Broderson. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
42. _. 1964. "The Problem of Rationality in the Social World." Pp. 64-90 in Collected Papers II: Studies in Social Theory, edited by Avid Broderson. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
43. Schutz, Alfred. 1967. The Phenomenology of the Social World. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
44. Schutz, Alfred, and Thomas Luckmann. 1973. The Structures of the Life-World. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
45. Szasz, Andrew. 1994. Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
46. Thomason, Burke C. 1982. Making Sense of Reification: Alfred Schutz and Constructionist Theory. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
47. _. 1994. "Some Further Thoughts about Communal Success: The Role of First- and Second-Order Taken-for-Grantedness." Pp. 1-27 in Annual of the Communal Studies Association. New York: CSA.
48. Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. 1999. The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
49. Weber, Max, A. M. Henderson, and Talcott Parsons. 1947. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization; Being Part I of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. London: W. Hodge.
50. Williams, Jerry. 1998. "Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience: The Social Construction of Environmental Problems." Sociological Inquiry 68:476-97.
51. _. 2000. "The Phenomenology of Global Warming: The Role of Proposed Solutions as Competitive Factors in the Public Arenas of Discourse." Human Ecology Review 7:63-72.
52. Yearley, Steven. 1991. The Green Case: A Sociology of Environmental Issues, Arguments, and Politics. London: HarperCollins Academic.
53. Zeitlin, Irving M. 2001. Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.