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  • 1 - Classical Theory and Environmental Sociology: Toward Deeper and Stronger Roots

  • from Part I - Theory in Environmental Sociology
  • Edited by Katharine Legun, Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island, Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 11-29

  • Summary

    Chapter Two examines the origins of the canon of classical sociological theory and how this canon entered environmental sociology in the field’s early history. The analysis highlights the centrality of colonialism and imperialism, as well as mid-twentieth century liberalism and geopolitics – along with their ideological underpinnings – in shaping both ecological and social thought, as well as the discipline of sociology, with consequences for the later emergence of environmental sociology. The chapter closes by pointing to opportunities for further recovery of early critical perspectives lost, due in part to the process of canon formation and practices of social exclusion and academic marginalization, at great cost to the development of socio-ecological thought and action.