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Titel (primär) Classical sociology and the restoration of nature: the relevance of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel
Titel (sekundär) Reconfiguring the social/natural interface
Autor Gross, M.
Herausgeber Inglis, D.; Bone, J.; Wilkie, R.
Quelle Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
Department SUSOZ
Band/Volume Vol. 4
Seite von 236
Seite bis 254
Sprache englisch
UFZ Bestand Leipzig, Biblitohek, Hauptlesesaal, 00019934, 05-1861, DK: 502.6/.7 Nat
Abstract From a social science perspective, one of the central points of ecological restoration is that it implies not only acknowledgement of society’s invention of nature, but also of nature’s answers to human actions. In this article, the author argues that the reflections of the early-20th century sociologists Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim on the place of human beings in nature could serve as a model for integrating restored and invented nature into sociological analysis, while at the same time allowing other species and nonhuman nature a measure of independence as subjects or actors in a network of relationships that includes humans. Simmel’s concept of society as a web of reciprocal interaction and reciprocal effect (Wechselwirkung), in particular, is of importance for descriptions of a community that includes nonhuman as well as human elements.
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Gross, M. (2005):
Classical sociology and the restoration of nature: the relevance of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel
In: Inglis, D., Bone, J., Wilkie, R. (eds.)
Reconfiguring the social/natural interface
Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences Vol. 4
Routledge, London, p. 236 - 254