Controversies and risks in the social construction of the concept of healthy food are discussed, using soybean as the object of study. Studies concerning the impacts of soy on human health and the effects of its cultivation on the social-environmental domain were reviewed to analyze the political context of the discussion surrounding soy and the socio-environmental repercussions of its cultivat...

Hope is a crucial component of agency involving the setting of goals, visualization of obstacles, and increasing willpower in the effort of achieving a desired goal. This hope is not simply optimism and is potentially a bridge between structure and agency. Yet, the powers of hope in sociology have been greatly unexplored including the ability of collective hope to create social change. This lac...

M. Gross and H. Heinrichs (eds.), Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0_2, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract For quite some time environmental sociology has been preoccupied with understanding the fundamental causes of environmental crises. It is only since the 1990s that attention has shifted stronger t...

The article is devoted to contemporary issues of learning and teaching economic sociology in higher education. The article draws attention to the theoretical and methodological problems of economic sociology. The author analyzes the current global social issues of economic development. The article outlines the prospects of development of teaching economic sociology. These prospects are related ...

Authors: Molly M. King Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Carl T. Bergstrom Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Shelley J. Correll Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Jennifer Jacquet Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York, NY Jevin D. West – Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA