Human exemptionalism paradigm/new ecological paradigm in ...
2024年4月28日 · This evolved into an examination of sociology’s implicit underlying “human exemptionalism paradigm” (a disciplinary version of the “dominant western worldview” shared across modern industrial societies) which views humans as exempt from ecological constraints due to science, technology, social organization and human ingenuity.
The Planetary Rift and the New Human Exemptionalism:
2012年9月23日 · The answer to these two challenges, it is argued, lies in the development of a political-economic and rational-historical critique of the capitalist environmental regime in the traditions of Marx and Weber. This demands, however, the outright rejection of the new exemptionalism.
into human exemptionalism, for if global change is seen as primarily a social construction rather than an objective (albeit imperfectly understood) condition, then it poses little threat to the future of our species.
Environmental sociologists argue against human exemptionalism—the tendency to see human systems as exempt from the constraints of nature yet when we address solutions to environmental problems we often resort to an exemptionalist perspective about human consciousness.
Exemptionalism vs environmentalism: the crucial debate on the ...
1999年10月1日 · Exemptionalism is an unproven, invalidated hypothesis that surely needs more robust supporting evidence before the future of human society depends on it! The old adage, “if something seems too good to be true, it probably is” seems appropriate in this regard.
Struggling with human exemptionalism: The rise, decline and ...
We also suggest that growing recognition of the reality of global environmental change (GEC) poses a fundamental challenge to this “human exemptionalism paradigm,” and thus offers an opportunity for strengthening sociological interest in the environment.
Exemptionalism and Sociological Theory The new, ostensibly reflexive, exemptionalism represented by today’s ecological modernization theory can no more lay claims to a direct connection to classical sociology than can the earlier, post–Second World War exemptionalism. Classically, sociology has provided powerful insights