I begin this paper with summaries of environment and development perspectives foundational to contemporary environmental sociology: ecological modernization theory and treadmill of production theory. Descriptions of the perspectives are provided as well as an overview of recent quantitative cross-national analyses that evaluate the propositions of both theories. Next, I provide a summary of eco...

This paper takes as its starting point Bernstein’s (2000) concepts of regulative and instructional discourses. Bernstein describes the role of instructional discourse to create ‘specialized skills and their relationship to each other’ and regulative discourse to create ‘order, relations and identity’ and manage ‘attitudes, dispositions and performances’. These concepts from the sociology of edu...

Various societal and academic actors argue that conspiracy theories should be debunked by insisting on the truthfulness of real “facts” provided established epistemic institutions. But are scholars appropriate to correct people’s beliefs is right most productive thing do? Drawing years ethnographic research experiences in Dutch milieu, I explain this paper why debunking not possible (can actual...

Borrowing from other spheres of knowledge, social constructionism seems to have seeped into sociological thinking through micro-sociological theories. Unlike earlier classical and 'modern' sociological theories, micro-sociology tends to circumscribe analysis of human behavior to 'everyday sociology' and the social construction of experiential knowledge. Thus, human behavior is not perceived as ...

This paper examines recent trends in theory in health sociology in the United States and finds that the use of theory is flourishing. The central thesis is that the field has reached a mature state and is in the early stage of a paradigm shift away from a past focus on methodological individualism (in which the individual is the primary unit of analysis) toward a growing utilization of theories...

introduction:the human being always attempts to find a way to improve his physical and mental abilities. history shows that, despite the many promotions in every branch of science and technology, we cannot see much improvement in thinking abilities. with the advent of the iinternet and www, many thought that the problem will be solved. but nowadays we can see that the main problem remains: the ...