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Designed to introduce students to key concepts and methods in
sociology and to engage them in critical thinking, Ten Lessons in
Introductory Sociology provides a brief and valuable overview to
four major questions that guide the discipline: * Why sociology? *
What unites us? * What divides us? * How do societies change?
Deftly balancing breadth and depth, the book makes the study of
sociology accessible, relevant, and meaningful. Contextualizing the
most important issues, Ten Lessons helps students discover "the
sociological imagination" and what it means to be part of an
engaged public discourse.
This book develops an analytical framework for understanding United
States foreign agricultural policy through a "state interest"
approach, and describes and analyses seven cases of food policy
decisions through this perspective which shows that decision makers
sought on most occasions to utilise US food resources to accomplish
foreign policy objectives. A fundamental aspect of the statist
approach is the recognition that those sectors representing the
interest of the state will inevitably confront other actors in the
policy process who are likely pursuing conflicting objectives. This
book looks at contemporary circumstances in the formulation of US
agricultural policy, in particular those alterations that occurred
beginning in 1972. It offers an analysis of the nature of foreign
economic policy and outlines the re-emergence of economics as an
important component of US foreign policy, and an analysis of the
concept of "food power".
This book develops an analytical framework for understanding United
States foreign agricultural policy through a "state interest"
approach, and describes and analyses seven cases of food policy
decisions through this perspective which shows that decision makers
sought on most occasions to utilise US food resources to accomplish
foreign policy objectives. A fundamental aspect of the statist
approach is the recognition that those sectors representing the
interest of the state will inevitably confront other actors in the
policy process who are likely pursuing conflicting objectives. This
book looks at contemporary circumstances in the formulation of US
agricultural policy, in particular those alterations that occurred
beginning in 1972. It offers an analysis of the nature of foreign
economic policy and outlines the re-emergence of economics as an
important component of US foreign policy, and an analysis of the
concept of "food power".
Schnaiberg 's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably
the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of
environmental sociology. Elaborated and tested, it has been found
to be an accurate predictor of political-economic changes in the
global economy. In the global South, it has figures prominently in
the work of structural environmental analysts and has been used by
many political-economic movements. Building new extensions and
applications of the treadmill theory, this new book shows how and
why northern analysts and governments have failed to protect our
environment and secure our future. Using an empirically based
political-economic perspective, the authors outline the causes of
environmental degradation, the limits of environmental protection
policies, and the failures of institutional decision-makers to
protect human well-being.
Schnaiberg 's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably
the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of
environmental sociology. Elaborated and tested, it has been found
to be an accurate predictor of political-economic changes in the
global economy. In the global South, it has figures prominently in
the work of structural environmental analysts and has been used by
many political-economic movements. Building new extensions and
applications of the treadmill theory, this new book shows how and
why northern analysts and governments have failed to protect our
environment and secure our future. Using an empirically based
political-economic perspective, the authors outline the causes of
environmental degradation, the limits of environmental protection
policies, and the failures of institutional decision-makers to
protect human well-being.
In recent years, environmentalism in the US has increasingly
emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological
problems. Correspondingly, the American environmental movement has
exhorted its supporters to 'think globally' but 'act locally'. The
authors examine this modern environmental mantra by analysing the
opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed
by economic and political structures at all levels. The
difficulties involved in local activism are explored in three case
studies - a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the
Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling. The final chapter then
reflects on the challenges facing citizen-worker movements in each
case study, and concludes that, despite the inherent difficulties,
any successful attempt at mobilisation must have a local component.
In recent years, environmentalism in the United States has increasingly emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological problems. The authors critique the modern environmental mantra, "think globally, act locally," by analyzing the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels. Three case studies--a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling--demonstrate the challenges facing citizen-worker movements.
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