Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
This is the seventh volume in a series designed to publish theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems.
Price: $146.99
Pages: 384
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: JAI Press Inc.
Series: Advances in Human Ecology
Publication Date:
02 August 1998
ISBN: 9780762304714
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Applied ecology, Social impact of environmental issues, Social groups
List of contributors. Preface (L. Freese). Evolutionary sociology (A.R. Maryanski). Social relations, social change, and human nature: connecting evolutionary psychology to social theory (P. Dickens). Darwin, Durkheim, and mutualism (W.R. Catton Jr). Gender, work, and subsistence: a human ecological explanation for the availability of female labor leading up to the industrial revolution (N. Lauster). Local "instigating disputes" and the politicization of the environment: the case of Tampere, Finland (M. Laine et al.). The urban environment: the intersection of white middle-class and white working-class environmentalism (1820s-1950s) (D.E. Taylor). Ecological and normative fundamentals of value judgments in nature conservation: the case of nonindigenous plants (U. Eser). Holism: writ and reposte in ecology and human ecology (G.L. Young).