POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY IS DEAD. The old kind, anyway. What counted as political sociology in the past just is not practiced anymore. Generalizing wildly, political sociology used to be the study of how voters, classes, movements, parties, and so on influenced the state—be it political leaders, policy, administration, and so forth. In Canada, this kind of political sociology was represented by both...

This essay treats Burawoy’s advocacy for public sociology as a social problems claim. Using a social constructionist approach, I examine the rhetorical strategies Burawoy uses to construct the discipline in a way that makes public sociology seem not only relevant, but integral to what sociologists do. Sociology’s history, ethos and practitioners are framed in ways that make its commitment to th...

1 Agriculture and Environment Program Area, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2 Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 3 International Affairs and Biodiversity Program, Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), Lima, Peru, 4 Department of Economics, University of Puerto Rico-Rı́o Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States of Ame...

in the Mississippi River Basin Mark B. David,*,† Courtney G. Flint,‡ Gregory F. McIsaac,† Lowell E. Gentry,† Mallory K. Dolan,‡ and George F. Czapar †Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois , W503 Turner Hall, 1102 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States ‡Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology, Utah State University, 0730 ...

Applied sociology is usually taken to mean the application of sociological theories and findings to issues of social policy. In this paper, we present some examples of a quite different notion of applied sociology: one in which sociological insights are applied to the design of computer software. Sociology’s primary concern as a discipline can be considered to be the study of the interaction of...

REQUIRED) In this paper I introduce the concept of eco-masculinities as a philosophical and critical project to understand the links between gendered and pro-environmental behaviour. The background of the feminist project, the sociology of masculinity, and the post-gendered world to which they both aspire, alongside a brief history of the project of ecofeminism, occupy the bulk of the paper. In...

1 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 Geography, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 4 Arctic Technology Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Lyngby, Denmark, 5 Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 Ge...

Toward a unified theory of project governance: economic, sociological and psychological supports for relational contracting Witold J. Henisz a , Raymond E. Levitt b & W. Richard Scott c a The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 3107 SH-DH, 3620 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6370, USA b Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yama...