I begin this paper with summaries of environment and development perspectives foundational to contemporary environmental sociology: ecological modernization theory and treadmill of production theory. Descriptions of the perspectives are provided as well as an overview of recent quantitative cross-national analyses that evaluate the propositions of both theories. Next, I provide a summary of eco...

Gabriel Vélez-Cuartas (PhD in Social & Political Sciences) is an Associate professor of sociology and Director of the Research Center in Social Science and Humanities at the University of Antioquia in Colombia. He belongs to the research group Social Networks & Actors subscribed to National System of Science Technology & Innovation in Colombia. He has worked in collaboration with the team of th...

My thesis in sociology takes place in a big research program studying contaminated storm water in urban areas in order to develop new processes to cope with pollution. Most of the researchers of the program are biologists, chemists, hydrologists. The study also conveys sociology insisting on the importance of a multidisciplinary approach. Why would a sociologist be needed to help understand a t...

This paper explicates a critical theory of moral panic, arguing that there is an afŽ nity to be discerned between the sociology of moral panic and the sociology of moral regulation. It is demonstrated how efforts to distance sociological investigations of moral regulation from studies of moral panic have been founded on a narrow treatment of the ways in which the latter have conceptualized pani...

Since its inception in the work of the classical social theorists, the sociology of knowledge—or as some would prefer, of belief—has generated an extensive array of debates about relativism. A central question has been whether the very existence of social determinants for beliefs makes it impossible to regard them as true or rational in any absolute sense, and this has proved especially content...

This article analyses the recent resurgence of political analysis within international development. It argues that although new conceptual approaches have brought valuable insights concerning the links between popular agency, institutional politics and development possibilities, several problems remain. These include a tendency either to overlook or to under-theorise some important linkages bet...

abstractin this study the main goal is explain the achievements of development after the revolution as a unique and special phenomenon as “various local development” based on the specific realities of iranian society. for this purpose have been used of analytical and concept framework weber’s sociology in explaining the qualitative transformation. according to this model, in creating evolution ...

Reseña del libro Max Weber and the Path from Political Economy to Economic Sociology, de Christopher Adair-Toteff. London: Routledge, 2022. 145 pp.

praying is a socio-religious action, either from “religious sociology” (religious looking on society) or” sociology of religion” (sociological looking on religion).this social and spiritual action has few features: it is an effective action, for its positive implication on prayer’s everyday life; it is a continued action, for it is current in all dimensions of prayer’s activities; and finally, ...