SOC254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Main Point, Industrial Society, Resource Depletion
10 Nov 2018
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Week 2: social transformation and the limits to growth. Readings: martell, l 2013, the limits to growth. Environmental concern should be considered in the sociology of industrialism. This article looks at the limits of sociology of industrialism and at an environmentalist analysis of industrialism. Environmental issues are excluded from the discourse regarding industrial societies. The limits to growth report demonstrates: the way social structures and processes effect industry and economic development. The main point is that all these areas focus on the relationship between industry and society. the relevance of environmental factors to the sociology of industrialism. The ecological limits and internalist focus of the sociology of industrialism. There has been a focus on the interaction of industrial and social development at the expense of attention to the natural environment. The sociology of industrialism ignores: the environmental consequences of social processes (ex. pollution, the factors affecting societal development which are both natural and social (resource availability)
