Welcome Frustrations with the Climate: Comment on Redclift

• Authors: Matthias Gross
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Redclift (2011) provided a timely and perhaps deliberately provocative overview of sociological writings on climate change and the disciplinary problems of a post carbon world for environmental sociology. This comment emphasizes that he never actually clarifies what exactly are those problems that sociology faces in its attempt to open up a space for itself in the field of climate research. This omission also leads to unnecessary claims regarding the state of social science research on climate change as well as unspecified calls for more interdisciplinarity in sociological analysis of contemporary societies’ carbon dependence.

Keywords

EN

climate change; hemeneutics; interdisciplinarity; environmental sociology

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 183-187

Dates

published

2011-10-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Matthias Gross

• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

References

• Catton, W. R. and R. E. Dunlap (1978) ‘Environmental sociology: A new paradigm’. The American Sociologist, 13(1): 41-49.
• Portes, A. (2000) ‘The hidden abode: Sociology as analysis of the unexpected’. American Sociological Review, 65(1):1-18.[Crossref]
• Redclift, M. (this issue).
• Raymond, L. (2011) ‘‘It’s too late baby, now, it’s too late?’ Frustration and resignation in recent books on climate change policy’. Nature and Culture, 6 (2):192-203.
• Richards, E.H. (1907) Sanitation in Daily Life. Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2011-0027