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Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective
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Rural Sociology
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June 1, 1998
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HANNIGAN, JOHN A. Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. New York: Routledge, 1996. 236 pp. $19.99 (paper).
A more accurate title for this work would be: "Environmental Problems: A Social Constructionist Approach." Growing out of, and expanding, the analysis of environmental movements started by Reily Dunlap in the 1970s, this book, rather than focussing generically on environmental sociology, examines how activities or events come to be recognized, or not, as environmental problems.
That said, the author does an excellent job with his more limited agenda. Taking off from the social construction of social problems approach pioneered by Spector and Kitsuse, Hannigan ...
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