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SOCI 4517

Society, Culture and Nature

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2022

Topics

  • – Sociology as though Nature does not Matter?
  • Catton, William and Riley Dunlap. 1980. “A New ‘Ecological Paradigm’ for a Post
  • Exuberant Sociology,” American Behavioural Scientist, 24
  • Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. “Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations
  • for Environmental Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology, 105
  • – Microsociology and the Material Environment
  • Gross, Matthias. 2000. “Classical Sociology and the Restoration of Nature: The Relevance
  • of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel,” Organization and Environment, 13
  • Brewster, Bradley and Antony Puddephatt. 2017. “G.H. Mead as a Socio-Environmental
  • Thinker,” in D. Hubner and H. Joas (eds.) The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead
  • – The Politics of Climate Change I
  • Anthony Giddens. 2012. The Politics of Climate Change, 2nd edition. UK: Polity
  • Press. (introduction → )
  • – The Politics of Climate Change II
  • Anthony Giddens. 2012. The Politics of Climate Change, 2nd edition. UK: Polity Press
  • – Independent Study Time
  • – Crisis of the Anthropocene I
  • Todd Dufresne. 2019. The Democracy of Suffering
  • (Preface, part II)
  • – Crisis of the Anthropocene II

Readings

  • Required: 1. Anthony Giddens. 2012. The Politics of Climate Change, 2nd Edition. Polity Press.
  • Required: 2. Todd Dufresne. 2019. The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene. McGill-Queens Press.
  • Required: 3. Bruno Latour. 2018. Down to Earth: Politics in the Climatic Regime. Polity.
  • Required: 4. Bruno Latour 2022. After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis. (Translated by Julie Rose). Polity.
  • Required: Explanation of Evaluation:
  • Required: 1. Participation (): This grade is intended to reflect the quality, more than the quantity, of
Winter 2022

Topics

  • — Sociology as though Nature does not Matter?
  • Exuberant Sociology,” American Behavioural Scientist, 24
  • Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. “Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Fo
  • for Environmental Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology, 105
  • — Microsociology and the Material Environment
  • Gross, Matthias. 2000. “Classical Sociology and the Restoration of Nature
  • of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel,” Organization and Environment, 13(
  • Brewster, Bradley and Antony Puddephatt. 2017. “G.H. Mead as a Socio-Env
  • Thinker,” in D. Hubner and H. Joas (eds.) The Timeliness of George Herbert
  • — The Politics of Climate Change I
  • Anthony Giddens. 2012. The Politics of Climate Change, 2"4 edition. UK
  • Press. (introduction > )
  • — The Politics of Climate Change II
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  • Anthony Giddens. 2012. The Politics of Climate Change, 2" edition. UK: Polity Press
  • — Independent Study Time
  • — Crisis of the Anthropocene I
  • Todd Dufresne. 2019. The Democracy of Suffering

Readings

  • Required: 1. Anthony Giddens. 2012. The Politics of Climate Change, 2" Edition. Polity Press.
  • Required: 2. Todd Dufresne. 2019. The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene. McGill-Queens Press.
  • Required: 3. Bruno Latour. 2018. Down to Earth: Politics in the Climatic Regime. Polity.
  • Required: 4. Bruno Latour 2022. After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis. (Translated by Julie Rose). Polity.
  • Required: Explanation of Evaluation:
  • Required: 1. Participation (): This grade is intended to reflect the quality, more than the quantity, of
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