Professor:	Course:
Douglas Smith	Section 001
104 Grise Hall	3:00 - 6:00 R
Department of Sociology -- Western Kentucky University	134 Grise Hall
1906 College Heights Blvd. #11057
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1057
Phone: (270) 745-2152
Email: Douglas.Smith@wku.edu
Webpage: www.wku.edu/~Douglas.Smith/

Office Hours: by appointment

Course Objective

Sociology 470G is a survey course specifically concerning the ways human beings relate to the world around them. My goal is to make you think sociologically about your own relation to the environment. I'm not interested in making clones of me. Nor am I interested in preaching at you or telling you how good or bad you are for the environment. I am interested in you becoming intelligent examiners of and participants in the social world around you so that you can create opportunities to build a just and sustainable future for yourselves and your children. Hopefully, you will discover how much the physical world (as well as our social representations of it) shapes you and your life chances as well as how much the physical world is shaped by you. To do this I will provide you with knowledge of what environmental and natural resources sociology are and are not through an examination of its concepts, theories, and methods of investigation. It is hoped that the course will inspire you to seek out additional material on issues that are of interest to you.

We will begin by discussing (public) environmental worldviews and (scientific) environmental paradigms. This will lead into a discussion of how these attitudes and beliefs have affected or have not affected the main sociological theories. Next, we will examine how sociological theories focus on the three main areas of environmental concern: sustainability, environmental justice, and the rights of nature. We will end with a consideration of social movements working to build a more ecological society, their tactics, and their prospects for success.

Evaluation Criteria

Students with disabilities who require accommodations (academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids or services) for this course must contact the Office for Student Disability Services, Room 445, Potter Hall. The OFSDS telephone number is (270) 745-5004 v/tty. Per University policy, please DO NOT request accommodations directly from the professor without a letter of accommodation from the Office for Student Disability Services.

Tentative Course Schedule

August 30

Introduction to the Course

September 6

Constructing Reality: The Social Construction of Nature and Environmental Problems

Capek, Stella M. 2009. "The Social Construction of Nature: Of Computers, Butterflies, Dogs, and Trucks." Pp. 11-24 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Hannigan, John A. 1995. "Social Construction of Environmental Problems." Pp. 32-54 in Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. New York: Routledge.

Leopold, Aldo. 1949. "Thinking Like a Mountain." Pp. 129-133 in A Sand County Almanac. London: Oxford.

Yearley, Steven. 2002. "The Social Construction of Environmental Problems: A Theoretical Review and Some Not-Very-Herculean Labors." Pp. 274-285 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, edited by R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Finley, C. 2009. The social construction of fishing, 1949. Ecology and Society 14(1): 6. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art6/

Stedman, Richard C. 2011. "Is It Really Just a Social Construction? The Contribution of the Physical Environment to Sense of Place." Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal 16(8):671-85.

Human Ecology and Natural Resources Sociology

Park, Robert. 1936. "Human Ecology." The American Journal of Sociology 42(1):1-15.

Catton, William R. 1994. "Foundations of Human Ecology" Sociological Perspectives 37(1):75-95.

Firey, Walter. 1999. "Introduction," "Approaches to Natural Resources," and "Differences among Resource Optima" Pp. 3-41 in Man, Mind, and Land: A Theory of Resource Use. Middleton, WI: Social Ecology Press.

Stankey, George H. and Stephen F. McCool. 2004. "Social Sciences and Natural Resources Management." Pp. 21-34 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

Taylor, Jonathan G. and Suzanne N. Taylor. 2004. "Whither Human Ecology?" Pp. 261-270 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

Field, Donald R., Paul R. Voss, Tracy K. Kuczenski, Roger B. Hammer, and Volker C. Radeloff. 2010. "Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology: A Conceptual Framerwork." Society and Natural Resources 16(4):349-61.

York, Richard, and Eugene A. Rosa. 2012. "Choking on Modernity: A Human Ecology of Air Pollution." Social Problems 59(2):282-300.

September 13

Natural Resources Sociology and Environmental Sociology

Buttel, Frederick H. 2002. "Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies." Society and Natural Resources 15(3): 205-12.

Field, Donald R., A. E. Luloff, and Richard S. Krannich. 2002. "Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):213-28.

Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton, Jr. 2002. "Which Function(s) of the Environment Do We Study? A Comparison of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):239-249.

Freudenburg, William R. 2002. "Navel Warfare? The Best of Minds, the Worst of Minds and the Dangers of Misplaced Concreteness." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):229-237.

Belsky, Jill M. 2011. "Beyond the Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology Divide: Insights from a Transdisciplinary Perspective." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):269-80.

Social Theory and Environmental Sociology

Humphey, Craig R., Tammy L. Lewis, and Frederick H. Buttel. 2002. "Social Theory and the Environment." Pp. 34-68 in Environment, Energy and Society: A New Synthesis. Belmont, CA: Wadworth/Thompson Learning.

Barbosa, Luiz C. 2009. "Theories in Environmental Sociology." Pp. 25-46 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Ted Benton, "Marxism and Natural Limits: An Ecological Critique and Reconstruction," New Left Review 178 (1989):51-86.

September 20

Social Theory and Environmental Sociology (continued)

Spaargaren, Gert and Arthur P.J. Mol. 1992. "Sociology, Environment, and Modernity: Ecological Modernization as a Theory of Social Change." Society and Natural Resources 5(4):323-44.

Blowers, Andrew. 1997. "Environmental Policy: Ecological Modernization or the Risk Society?" Urban Studies 34(5-6):845-71.

Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. "Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology." American Journal of Sociology 105(2):366-405.

Papadakis, Elim. 2002. "Social Theory and the Environment: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective." Pp. 119-143 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, edited by R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Wehling, Peter. 2002. "Dynamic Constellations of the Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology." Pp. 144-166 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, edited by R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Ecological Self and Identity

Devall, Bill. 1988. "Chapter 2. The Ecological Self." Pp. 38-72. in Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Books.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Chapter 1. The Voices of Ecological Identity." Pp. 1 - 24 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Cantrill, James G. 2011. "The Role of Sense of Self-in-Place and Risk Amplification in Promoting the Conservation of Wildlife." Human Dimensions of Wildlife 16:73-86.

September 27

Constructing the Self with the Environment

Bixler, Robert D., Myron F. Floyd, and William E. Hammitt. 2002. "Environmental Socialization: Quantitative Tests of the Childhood Play Hypothesis." Environment and Behavior 34(6): 795-818.

Sobel, David. 2012. "Look, Don't Touch: The Problem with Environmental Education." Orion Magazine http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6929

Daniels, Glynis. 1995. "The Forest Related Content of Children's Textbooks: 1950-1991."

Constructing Identity: Image, Lifestyle, and The Treadmill of Consumption I

Bell, Michael Mayerfield. 2009. "Chapter 2. Consumption and Materialism" Pp. 33-56 in An Invitation to Environmental Sociology, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

Shove, Elizabeth and Alan Warde. 2002. "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles, and the Environment." Pp. 230-251 in R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, Peter Dickens, and August Gijswijt (eds.) Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.

Deshpande, Rohit, Wayne D. Hoyer, and Naveen Donthu. 1986. "The Intensity of Ethnic Affiliation: A Study of the Sociology of Hispanic Consumption." Journal of Consumer Research 13(2):214-20.

Spaargaren, Gert. 2003. "Sustainable Consumption: A Theoretical and Environmental Policy Perspective." Society and Natural Resources 16(8):687-701.

Population

Harper, Charles. "Population, Environment, and Food." Pp. 179-224 in Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Bates, Diane C. 2009. "Population, Demography, and the Environment." Pp. 107-124 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Zilverberg, Cody, Urs Kreuter, and Richard Conner. 2010. "Population Growth and Fertilizer Use: Ecological and Economic Consequences in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala." Society and Natural Resources 23:1-13.

October 11

Social Dilemma 1: The Tragedy of the Commons

Hardin, Garrett. 1968. "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science 162:1243-8.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Environmental Problems as a Tragedy of the Commons." Pp. 22-32 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Pp. 67 - 83 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Brown Greg, and Charles C. Harris Jr. 1992. "National Forest Management and the “Tragedy of the Commons”: A Multidisciplinary Perspective." Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal 5(1):67-83.

Social Dilemma 2: The Free Rider Problem

Stroup, Richard L. 2000. "Free Riders and Collective Action Revisited." Independent Review 4(4):485-500.

Walsh, Edward J., and Rex H. Warland. 1983. "Social movement involvement in the wake of a nuclear accident: Activists and free riders in the TMI area." American Sociological Review 48(6): 764-780.

Johnson, Rebecca L. and Michael J. Manfredo. 1989. "An Evaluation of the Relationship between Nongame Wildlife Use and Donation to Nongame Tax Checkoffs." Society and Natural Resources 2(1):345-52.

Individual Deviance

Forsyth, Craig J. and Thomas A. Marckese. 1993. "Thrills and Skills: A Sociological Analysis of Poaching." Deviant Behavior 14:157-172.

October 18

Individual Deviance (continued)

Pendleton, Michael R. 1998. "Taking the Forest: The Shared Meaning of Tree Theft." Society and Natural Resources 11(1):39-50.

Hampshire, Kate, Sandra Bell, Gillian Wallace, and Faustas Stepukonis. 2004. "'Real' Poachers and Predators: Shades of Meaning in Local Understandings of Threats to Fisheries." Society and Natural Resources 17:305-318.

Fox, Nicols. 2003. "The Clothesline Question: How Hanging Out the Laundry Sparked a Political Firestorm." Utne Reader Nov-Dec(120): 47-49.

Jonathan Maus (ed). 2009. "National Organization Finds that Bike-to-School Bans Are on the Rise." (Accessed August 24, 2009)

Darlington, David. "Why Johnny Can't Ride" http://www.bicycling.com/news/advocacy/why-johnny-cant-ride?page=0,7

Tunnell, Kenneth D. 2008. "Illegal Dumping: Large and Small Scale Littering in Rural Kentucky." Southern Rural Sociology 23(2):29-42.

Group Deviance

Freudenburg, William R. 1993. "Risk and Recreancy: Weber, the Division of Labor, and the Rationality of Risk Perceptions." Social Forces 71(4):909-32.

Beamish, Thomas D. 2005. "Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis." Pp. 173-187 in in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Markowitz, Gerald and David Rosner. 2005. "Corporate Responsibility for Toxins." Pp. 188-201. in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Freudenburg, William R. 2005. "Privileged Access, Privileged Accounts: Toward a Socially Structured Theory of Resources and Discourses." Social Forces 84(1):89-114.

October 25

Building Relationships: Relationships in and with the Environment

Hidalgo, M. Carmen and Bernardo Hernandez. 2002. "Attachment to the Physical Dimension of Places." Psychological Reports 91(3,Pt2):1177-82.

Fried, Marc. 2000. " Continuities and Discontinuities of Place." Journal of Environmental Psychology 20(3): 193-205.

Vaske, Jerry J. and Katherine C. Kobrin. 2001. "Place Attachment and Environmentally Responsible Behavior." Journal of Environmental Education 32(4):16-21.

Vorkinn, Marit and Hanne Riese. 2001. "Environmental Concern in a Local Context: The Significance of Place Attachment." Environment and Behavior 33:249-263.

Trentelman, Carla Koons. 2009. "Place Attachment and Community Attachment: A Primer Grounded in the Lived Experience of a Community Sociologist." Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal 22(3):191-210.

Ecofeminism

King, Ynestra. 1989. "The Ecology of Feminism and the Feminism of Ecology." Pp. 18-28 in Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism, edited by J. Plant. New Society.

Roach Catherine. 1991. "Loving Your Mother: On the Woman-Nature Relation." Hypatia 6(1):46-59.

Salleh, Ariel.1993. "Class, Race, and Gender Discourse in the Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate" Environmental Ethics 15:225-44.

November 1

Ecofeminism (continued)

Smith, D. Clayton. 2001. "Environmentalism, Feminism, and Gender." Sociological Inquiry 71(3):314-34.

Leach, Melissa. 2007. "Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell." Development and Change 67-85.

Banerjee, Damayanti, and Michael Mayerfield Bell. 2007. "Ecogender: Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science." Society and Natural Resources 20:3-19.

Gaard, Greta. 2011. "Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Materialist Feminist Environmentalism." Feminist Formations 23(2):26-53.

Inequaility: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

Hamilton, James T. 1995. "Testing for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 14(1):107-32.

Daniels, Glynis, and Samantha Friedman. 1999. "Spatial Inequality and the Distribution of Industrial Toxic Releases: Evidence from the 1990 TRI." Social Science Quarterly 80(2):244-61.

Mohai, Paul and Robin Saha. 2006. "Reassessing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Environmental Justice Research." Demography 43(2):383-99.

Ringquist, Evan J. 2005. "Assessing Evidence of Environmental Inequities: A Meta-Analysis." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24(2):223-47.

Mohai, Paul, David Pellow, and J. Timmons Roberts. 2009. "Environmental Justice." Annual Review of Environmental Resources 34:404-30.

November 8

Inequaility: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice (continued)

Taquino, Michael. Domenico Parisi, and Duane A. Gill. "Unit of Analysis and the Environmental Justice Hypothesis: The Case of Industrial Hog Farms." Social Science Quarterly 83(1):298-316.

Miranda, Marie Lynn, Douglas A. Hastings, Joseph E. Aldy, and William H. Schlesinger. 2011. "The Environmental Justice Dimensions of Climate Change." Environmental Justice 4(1):17-25.

Environmental Movements

Forrest, Richard, Miranda Schreurs, and Rachel Penrod. 2008. "A Comparative History of U.S. and Japanese Environmental Movements." Pp. 13-37 in Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan, edited by P.P. Karan and U. Suganuma. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.

Dunlap, Riley E. and Angela G. Mertig. 1992. "The Evolution of the U.S. Environmental Movement from 1970 to 1990: An Overview." Pp. 1-10 in American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement 1970-1990, edited by R.E. Dunlap and A.G. Mertig, Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis.

Mitchell, Robert Cameron, Angela G. Mertig, and Riley E. Dunlap. 1992. "Twenty Years of Environmental Mobilization: Trends Among National Environmental Organizations." Pp. 11-26 in American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement 1970-1990, edited by R.E. Dunlap and A.G. Mertig, Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis.

Freudenberg, Nicholas and Carol Steinsapir. 1992. "Not in Our Backyards: The Grassroots Environmental Movement." Pp. 27-37 in American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement 1970-1990, edited by R.E. Dunlap and A.G. Mertig, Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis.

Tajik, Mansoureh. 2012. "Environmental Justice from the Roots: Tillery, North Carolina." Pp. 131-145 in Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South, edited by S. McSpirit, L. Faltraco, and C. Bailey. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

Futrell, Robert and Dick Futrell. 2012. "Expertise and Alliances: How Kentuckians Transformed the U.S. Chemical Weapons Disposal Program." Pp. 171-193 in Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South, edited by S. McSpirit, L. Faltraco, and C. Bailey. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

November 15

The Treadmill of Production

Allan Schnaiberg, The Environment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, Chapter 5.

Bell, Michael Mayerfield. 1998. "Money and Machines." Pp. 65-101 in An Invitation to Environmental Sociology. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

Schnaiberg, Allan. 2009. "Labor Productivity and the Environment." Pp. 59-67 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Molotch, Harvey. 1976. "The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place." American Journal of Sociology 82(2):309-32.

Obach, Brian K. 2007. "Theoretical Interpretations of the Growth in Organic Agriculture: Agricultural Modernization or an Organic Treadmill?" Society and Natural Resources 20(3):229-44.

Religious and Moral Approaches and the Environment

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Religious and Moral Approaches: Changing Values, Beliefs, and Worldviews." Pp. 33-70 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Jasper, James M. 1997. "The Necessity of Protest." Pp. 367-379 in The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Sharma, Subrat, Hem C. Rikhari, Lok Man S. Palni. 1999. "Conservation of Natural Resources Through Religion: A Case Study from Central Himalaya." Society and Natural Resources 12(6):599-612.

November 29

Religious and Moral Approaches and the Environment (continued)

Goetze, David and David Peterson. 1989. "Regulatory Responses to Commons Problems: The Columbia River Salmon Fishery." Society and Natural Resources 2(1):177-91.

Natori, Yoji. 1997. "Shiretoko Logging Controversy: A Case Study in Japanese Environmentalism and Nature Conservation System." Society and Natural Resources 10(6):551-65.

Education and the Environment

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Educational Interventions: Changing Attitudes and Providing Information." Pp. 71-94 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Campbell, Elizabeth H.. 2009. "Corporate Power: The Role of the Global Media in Shaping What We Know About the Environment." Pp. 68-84 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Lauber, T. Bruce, Barbara A. Knuth, and J. David Deshler. 2002. "Educating Citizens About Controversial Issues: The Case of Suburban Goose Management." Society and Natural Resources 15:581-97.

Van Den Berg, Heather A., Shawn J. Riley, and Shari L. Dann. 2011. "Conservation Education for Advancing Natural Resources Knowledge and Building Capacity for Volunteerism." Society and Natural Resources 24:205-20.

Russell, Stewart, Colleen Lux, and Greg Hampton. 2009. "Beyond 'Information': Integrating Consultation and Education for Water Recycling Initiatives." Society and Natural Resources 22:56-65.

Economic Incentives for Pro-Environmental Behavior.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Changing the Incentives." Pp. 95-124 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

December 6

Economic Incentives for Pro-Environmental Behavior (continued)

Hakes, Jay. 2008. "The Magic and Limits of Market-Based Solutions." Pp. 121-132 in A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Hakes, Jay. 2008. "Solution Five: Adopt Energy Taxes Liberals and Conservatives Can Like." Pp. 191-201 in A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Fraley, Jill M. 2012. "The Political Rhetoric of Property and Natural Resource Ownership: A Meditation on Chance, Taxation, and Appalachia." Society and Natural Resources 25:127-40.

Poudyal, Mahesh. 2011. "Chiefs and Trees: Tenures and Incentives in the Management and Use of Two Multipurpose Tree Species in Agroforestry Parklands in Northern Ghana." Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal 24(10):1063-77.

Community Matters

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Pp. 84 -102 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Community Management of the Commons." Pp. 125-151 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Morton, Lois Wright. 2008. "The Role of Civic Structure in Achieving Performance-Based Watershed Management." Society and Natural Resources 21(9):751-766.

Basurto, Xavier. 2005. "How Locally Designed Access and Use Controls Can Prevent the Tragedy of the Commons in a Mexican Small-Scale Fishing Community." Society and Natural Resources 18(7):643-59.

Hiwasaki, Lisa. 2006. "Community-Based Tourism: A Pathway to Sustainability for Japan's Protected Areas." Society and Natural Resources 19:675-92.

Sociology of Natural Resources and the Environment Fall 2012

Professor:

Course Objective

Evaluation Criteria

Tentative Course Schedule

August 30

Introduction to the Course

September 6

Constructing Reality: The Social Construction of Nature and Environmental Problems

Capek, Stella M. 2009. "The Social Construction of Nature: Of Computers, Butterflies, Dogs, and Trucks." Pp. 11-24 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Hannigan, John A. 1995. "Social Construction of Environmental Problems." Pp. 32-54 in Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. New York: Routledge.

Leopold, Aldo. 1949. "Thinking Like a Mountain." Pp. 129-133 in A Sand County Almanac. London: Oxford.

Yearley, Steven. 2002. "The Social Construction of Environmental Problems: A Theoretical Review and Some Not-Very-Herculean Labors." Pp. 274-285 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, edited by R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Finley, C. 2009. The social construction of fishing, 1949. Ecology and Society 14(1): 6. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art6/

Stedman, Richard C. 2011. "Is It Really Just a Social Construction? The Contribution of the Physical Environment to Sense of Place." Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal 16(8):671-85.

Human Ecology and Natural Resources Sociology

Park, Robert. 1936. "Human Ecology." The American Journal of Sociology 42(1):1-15.

Catton, William R. 1994. "Foundations of Human Ecology" Sociological Perspectives 37(1):75-95.

Firey, Walter. 1999. "Introduction," "Approaches to Natural Resources," and "Differences among Resource Optima" Pp. 3-41 in Man, Mind, and Land: A Theory of Resource Use. Middleton, WI: Social Ecology Press.

Stankey, George H. and Stephen F. McCool. 2004. "Social Sciences and Natural Resources Management." Pp. 21-34 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

Taylor, Jonathan G. and Suzanne N. Taylor. 2004. "Whither Human Ecology?" Pp. 261-270 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

Field, Donald R., Paul R. Voss, Tracy K. Kuczenski, Roger B. Hammer, and Volker C. Radeloff. 2010. "Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology: A Conceptual Framerwork." Society and Natural Resources 16(4):349-61.

York, Richard, and Eugene A. Rosa. 2012. "Choking on Modernity: A Human Ecology of Air Pollution." Social Problems 59(2):282-300.

September 13

Natural Resources Sociology and Environmental Sociology

Buttel, Frederick H. 2002. "Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies." Society and Natural Resources 15(3): 205-12.

Field, Donald R., A. E. Luloff, and Richard S. Krannich. 2002. "Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):213-28.

Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton, Jr. 2002. "Which Function(s) of the Environment Do We Study? A Comparison of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):239-249.

Freudenburg, William R. 2002. "Navel Warfare? The Best of Minds, the Worst of Minds and the Dangers of Misplaced Concreteness." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):229-237.

Belsky, Jill M. 2011. "Beyond the Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology Divide: Insights from a Transdisciplinary Perspective." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):269-80.

Social Theory and Environmental Sociology

Humphey, Craig R., Tammy L. Lewis, and Frederick H. Buttel. 2002. "Social Theory and the Environment." Pp. 34-68 in Environment, Energy and Society: A New Synthesis. Belmont, CA: Wadworth/Thompson Learning.

Barbosa, Luiz C. 2009. "Theories in Environmental Sociology." Pp. 25-46 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Ted Benton, "Marxism and Natural Limits: An Ecological Critique and Reconstruction," New Left Review 178 (1989):51-86.

September 20

Social Theory and Environmental Sociology (continued)

Spaargaren, Gert and Arthur P.J. Mol. 1992. "Sociology, Environment, and Modernity: Ecological Modernization as a Theory of Social Change." Society and Natural Resources 5(4):323-44.

Blowers, Andrew. 1997. "Environmental Policy: Ecological Modernization or the Risk Society?" Urban Studies 34(5-6):845-71.

Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. "Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology." American Journal of Sociology 105(2):366-405.

Papadakis, Elim. 2002. "Social Theory and the Environment: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective." Pp. 119-143 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, edited by R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Wehling, Peter. 2002. "Dynamic Constellations of the Individual, Society, and Nature: Critical Theory and Environmental Sociology." Pp. 144-166 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, edited by R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Ecological Self and Identity

Devall, Bill. 1988. "Chapter 2. The Ecological Self." Pp. 38-72. in Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Books.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Chapter 1. The Voices of Ecological Identity." Pp. 1 - 24 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Cantrill, James G. 2011. "The Role of Sense of Self-in-Place and Risk Amplification in Promoting the Conservation of Wildlife." Human Dimensions of Wildlife 16:73-86.

September 27

Constructing the Self with the Environment

Bixler, Robert D., Myron F. Floyd, and William E. Hammitt. 2002. "Environmental Socialization: Quantitative Tests of the Childhood Play Hypothesis." Environment and Behavior 34(6): 795-818.

Daniels, Glynis. 1995. "The Forest Related Content of Children's Textbooks: 1950-1991."

Constructing Identity: Image, Lifestyle, and The Treadmill of Consumption I

Bell, Michael Mayerfield. 2009. "Chapter 2. Consumption and Materialism" Pp. 33-56 in An Invitation to Environmental Sociology, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

Deshpande, Rohit, Wayne D. Hoyer, and Naveen Donthu. 1986. "The Intensity of Ethnic Affiliation: A Study of the Sociology of Hispanic Consumption." Journal of Consumer Research 13(2):214-20.

Spaargaren, Gert. 2003. "Sustainable Consumption: A Theoretical and Environmental Policy Perspective." Society and Natural Resources 16(8):687-701.

Population

Harper, Charles. "Population, Environment, and Food." Pp. 179-224 in Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Bates, Diane C. 2009. "Population, Demography, and the Environment." Pp. 107-124 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Zilverberg, Cody, Urs Kreuter, and Richard Conner. 2010. "Population Growth and Fertilizer Use: Ecological and Economic Consequences in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala." Society and Natural Resources 23:1-13.

October 11

Social Dilemma 1: The Tragedy of the Commons

Hardin, Garrett. 1968. "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science 162:1243-8.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Environmental Problems as a Tragedy of the Commons." Pp. 22-32 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Pp. 67 - 83 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Brown Greg, and Charles C. Harris Jr. 1992. "National Forest Management and the “Tragedy of the Commons”: A Multidisciplinary Perspective." Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal 5(1):67-83.

Social Dilemma 2: The Free Rider Problem

Stroup, Richard L. 2000. "Free Riders and Collective Action Revisited." Independent Review 4(4):485-500.

Walsh, Edward J., and Rex H. Warland. 1983. "Social movement involvement in the wake of a nuclear accident: Activists and free riders in the TMI area." American Sociological Review 48(6): 764-780.

Johnson, Rebecca L. and Michael J. Manfredo. 1989. "An Evaluation of the Relationship between Nongame Wildlife Use and Donation to Nongame Tax Checkoffs." Society and Natural Resources 2(1):345-52.

Individual Deviance

Forsyth, Craig J. and Thomas A. Marckese. 1993. "Thrills and Skills: A Sociological Analysis of Poaching." Deviant Behavior 14:157-172.

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Individual Deviance (continued)

Pendleton, Michael R. 1998. "Taking the Forest: The Shared Meaning of Tree Theft." Society and Natural Resources 11(1):39-50.

Hampshire, Kate, Sandra Bell, Gillian Wallace, and Faustas Stepukonis. 2004. "'Real' Poachers and Predators: Shades of Meaning in Local Understandings of Threats to Fisheries." Society and Natural Resources 17:305-318.

Fox, Nicols. 2003. "The Clothesline Question: How Hanging Out the Laundry Sparked a Political Firestorm." Utne Reader Nov-Dec(120): 47-49.

Jonathan Maus (ed). 2009. "National Organization Finds that Bike-to-School Bans Are on the Rise." (Accessed August 24, 2009)

Darlington, David. "Why Johnny Can't Ride" http://www.bicycling.com/news/advocacy/why-johnny-cant-ride?page=0,7

Tunnell, Kenneth D. 2008. "Illegal Dumping: Large and Small Scale Littering in Rural Kentucky." Southern Rural Sociology 23(2):29-42.

Group Deviance

Freudenburg, William R. 1993. "Risk and Recreancy: Weber, the Division of Labor, and the Rationality of Risk Perceptions." Social Forces 71(4):909-32.

Beamish, Thomas D. 2005. "Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis." Pp. 173-187 in in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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