Advances in Human Ecology

Book details for Advances in Human Ecology

Series: Advances in Human Ecology v. 7

Contributor(s): Lee Freese (editor),

Format: Hardback, 234 x 156 x 22mm , 384 pp, black & white illustrations

Publication date: 02 Aug 1998

Imprint: JAI Press Inc.

ISBN: 9780762304714

Price: £61.95

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Synopsis

This is the seventh volume in a series designed to publish theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems.

Contents

List of contributors. Preface (L. Freese). Evolutionary sociology (A.R. Maryanski). Social relations, social change, and human nature: connecting evolutionary psychology to social theory (P. Dickens). Darwin, Durkheim, and mutualism (W.R. Catton Jr). Gender, work, and subsistence: a human ecological explanation for the availability of female labor leading up to the industrial revolution (N. Lauster). Local "instigating disputes" and the politicization of the environment: the case of Tampere, Finland (M. Laine et al.). The urban environment: the intersection of white middle-class and white working-class environmentalism (1820s-1950s) (D.E. Taylor). Ecological and normative fundamentals of value judgments in nature conservation: the case of nonindigenous plants (U. Eser). Holism: writ and reposte in ecology and human ecology (G.L. Young).