In 2015, Dorceta Taylor received the Fred Buttel Outstanding Contribution to Field of Environmental Sociology Award at annual meeting American Sociological Association (ASA). At a bu...

Ecological studies arise within many different disciplines. This chapter describes common approaches to ecological inference in an environmental epidemiology setting, and compares these with traditional approaches in political science and sociology. These approaches vary considerably, both in their use of terminology and notation, and in the relative importance of the various issues that make e...

The political ideology of neoliberalism is widely recognized as having influenced the organization of national and global economies and public policies since the 1970s. In this article, we examine the relationship between the neoliberal variant of globalization and science. To do so, we develop a framework for sociology of science that emphasizes closer ties among political sociology, the socio...

The vague, yet undoubtedly desirable, notion of sustainability has been discussed and debated by many natural and social scientists. We argue that mainstream conceptions of sustainability, and the related concept of sustainable development, are mired in a “pre-analytic vision” that naturalizes capitalist social relations, closes off important questions regarding economic growth, and thus limits...