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Weber and the Environment: Classical Foundations for a Postexemptionalist Sociology
DOI 10.1086/664617
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In the last two decades classical sociology, notably Marx, has been mined for environmental insights in the attempt to surmount the “human exemptionalism” of post–Second World War sociology. Weber, however, has remained an enigma in this respect. This article addresses Weber’s approach to the environment, including its significance for his interpretive-causal framework and his understanding of capitalism. For Weber, sociological meanings were often anchored in biophysical realities, including climate change, resource consumption, and energy scarcity, while environmental influences were refracted in complex ways within cultural reproduction. His work thus constitutes a crucial key to constructing a meaningful postexemptionalist sociology.
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The prevailing economic and regulatory environment is strongly influenced by the 'human-exemptionalist paradigm', which views every evident externality as neutralizable by future innovation.
“This environment is strongly influenced by the 'human-exemptionalist paradigm' (Foster & Holleman, 2012 , p. 1626), which flaunts physical, chemical, biological, and social laws and their sciences by viewing every evident externality as neutralizable by future innovation.”
From Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime (2022) · cites this paper as Foster & Holleman, 2012
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- Authors
- Foster, J. B., & Holleman, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Oregon (US)
- Amherst College (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1625-1673
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W2012086721
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 130
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- FWCI
- 28.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › German Social Sciences and History
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Keywords
- Max Weber, environmental sociology, classical sociology, capitalism, interpretive sociology, biophysical environment, climate change, resource consumption, energy scarcity, cultural reproduction, sociology of nature
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