A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Sociology, modernity and the globalization of environmental change
Authors: Wilenius M
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Publication year: 1999
Journal: International Sociology
Journal name in source: INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
Journal acronym: INT SOCIOL
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
First page : 33
Last page: 57
Number of pages: 25
ISSN: 0268-5809
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580999014001003
Abstract
One of the issues in recent sociological debate on the assessment of global environmental change (GEC) has been the question how to determine the relevant domain of sociological enquiry. In this article I try to provide an insight into this question by looking at some of the conditions which enable us to identify the formation and acceleration of GEC as a phenomenon that is deeply rooted in the social and political development of modernity. Ln discussing the social origins of GEC, I identify four distinct forces of GEC, each of them amplified by the process of globalization. Next I present an analysis of climate change as an example of a GEC process, in which I show that, although the forces of modernization seem to be helpless in the face of a process of such magnitude, we still tend to rely on them to provide solutions to the problems they are responsible for generating.
One of the issues in recent sociological debate on the assessment of global environmental change (GEC) has been the question how to determine the relevant domain of sociological enquiry. In this article I try to provide an insight into this question by looking at some of the conditions which enable us to identify the formation and acceleration of GEC as a phenomenon that is deeply rooted in the social and political development of modernity. Ln discussing the social origins of GEC, I identify four distinct forces of GEC, each of them amplified by the process of globalization. Next I present an analysis of climate change as an example of a GEC process, in which I show that, although the forces of modernization seem to be helpless in the face of a process of such magnitude, we still tend to rely on them to provide solutions to the problems they are responsible for generating.
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