Frederick H Buttel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick H Buttel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick H |
| FAMILY NAME | Buttel |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTEL F H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 98 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 869 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies: Critical Perspectives
The Political Economy of Class Structure in U.S. Agriculture: A Theoretical Outline
Social class and social stratification are two frequently used concepts in rural sociology, yet there has been a surprisingly small amount of attention paid to the class structure of agriculture as a phenomenon in its own right. Put another way, although American rural sociologists can hardly avoid social class as an idea, direct confrontation with the reality of agricultural class relations has been rare. Thus, a most well known and extensively …
Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture
Introduction: Shaping the New Political Economy of Advanced Capitalist Agriculture
The discussion the turns to a consideration of the intellectual substance of the new political economy of agriculture, assessing die parameters of the field and some of the topical areas that are emerging but which were not encompassed in the Madison miniconference. Related to the changes in global economies and agricultural production, something new is occurring in the analysis of agriculture, specifically in the political economy of capitalist …
Governing Environmental Flows: Global Challenges to Social Theory
Globalization and the changing role of the nation-state calls for new approaches to environmental governance and new ways to conceptualize it. Recent developments in sociology—seen in the work of John Urry, Manuel Castells, and others—shows how social theory can be made less static, more fluid, and more directed toward flow and networks in order to encompass today's reality. Governing Environmental Flows explores what such a reformulation means f…
New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development
Why is global development so unequal in its social impact? How are global relations represented in local developments, and vice versa? What role do social movements play in shaping global development? These are some of the questions animating this state-of-the-art collection of essays. Subdivided into sections posing research, policy, and strategic questions regarding contemporary social change, this volume brings together scholars well-known for…
Ever Since Hightower: The Politics of Agricultural Research Activism in the Molecular Age
New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development
xii, 331 pages ; 24 cm
The Environmental and Post-Environmental Politics of Genetically Modified Crops and Foods
The movement against genetically modified (GM) crops/foods has become progressively ‘environmentalised’ in recent years, but making environmental risk the focus of the movement's critique of GM crops is probably, for activists, a strategic mistake, for the issue is not self-evidently simply an environmental one. When anti-GM activists, pro-GM interests, and policy makers refer to ‘GM crops and foods’, they are not always referring to the same thi…
The Treadmill of Production: An Appreciation, Assessment, and Agenda for Research
The work of Pellow, Gould, Schnaiberg, and Weinberg (particularly Schnaiberg’s The Environment and his notion of the treadmill of production) became one of the most influential strands of North American environmental sociology during the late 1970s and early 1980s for a number of reasons. It is fair to say, however, that the treadmill of production is not as predominant in environmental sociology in the early 21st century as it was two decades ag…
Global Social Movement(s) at the Crossroads: Some Observations on the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement
This paper examines the major structural characteristics of the anti-corporate globalization movement, its key bases and antecedents, its relationship with other global social movements (GSMs) and the key challenges it faces in the post-9/11 period. We suggest that despite the potential of the anti-corporate globalization movement to usher in major social changes, the movement faces a number of major crossroads in terms of ideology, discursive ap…
Neither Fish nor Fowl nor Forests: Some Thoughts on Realizing the Promise of the IASNR
The institutional trio of Society and Natural Resources, the International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, and the International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR) has seldom undertaken debate about or introspection over what is meant by the notion of natural resources. In this article I reflect on the historic tendencies within this trio about how natural resources have come to be implicitly defined. In a very gen…
Environmental Sociology and the Explanation of Environmental Reform
This article makes the case that environmental sociology is in the midst of a significant shift of problematics, from the explanation of environmental degradation to the explanation of environmental reform. In this article, the author suggests that there are four basic mechanisms of environmental reform or improvement: environmental activism/movements, state environmental regulation, ecological modernization, and international environmental gover…
Some Observations on the Anti‐globalization Movement
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 10: The Environmental State under Pressure
Social and Ecological Dimensions of the Alternative-Conventional Agricultural Paradigm Scale
This paper is an empirical test of the dimensionality and predictive value of the alternative-conventional agricultural paradigm (ACAP) scale developed by Beus and Dunlap. While recognizing that this scale may be appropriate and useful in studies of the agricultural intelligentsia (agricultural scientists, farm policy makers, organization leaders, and farm people actively following and participating in policy deliberations), our data suggest seve…
The Environmental State Under Pressure
The environmental state under pressure: an introduction / Arthur P.J. Mol and Frederick H. Buttel -- The treadmill of production and the environmental state / Allan Schnaiberg, David N. Pellow and Adam Weinberg -- Ecological modernization and the environmental state / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren -- From the treadmill of production to ecological modernization? Applying a Habermasian framework to society-environment relationships / Dana R. …
The Environmental State Under Pressure (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy)
viii, 267 p. : 23 cm
Sociological theory and the environment: Classical foundations, contemporary insights
Part 1 Preface Part 2 I Introduction and Overview Chapter 3 1 Sociological Theory and the Environment: An Overview and Introduction Part 4 II The Classical Tradition and Environmental Sociology Chapter 5 2 Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some Observations on Current Controversies Chapter 6 3 A Green Marxism? Labor-Processes, Alienation, and the Division of Labor Chapter 7 4 Ecological Materialism and the Sociolog…
Environmental and Resource Sociology: Introducing a Debate and Dialogue
(2002). Environmental and Resource Sociology: Introducing a Debate and Dialogue. Society & Natural Resources: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 201-203
Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies
While environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources nominally focus on the same subject matters, in practice the literatures in the two subdisciplines have tended to be quite separate intellectual enterprises. Environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources have different origins, their practitioners tend to have distinctive institutional locations, their problematics are different, and their theoretical tendencies…
Exploring the Gaps: Vital Links between Trade, Environment, and Culture
Today's dramatic globalization parallels earlier historical periods of rapid technological change that brought contested benefits and costs. James Lee argues that the current pace of technological change is on a collision course with the human ability to absorb it, but that we can learn lessons from the past to help us resolve today's problems. Exploring the Gaps looks at how the growing tensions between economic, ecological and social factors th…
Has Environmental Sociology Arrived
Gender and Agricultural Science: Evidence From Two Surveys of Land-Grant Scientists
We test two sets of hypotheses concerning the association between gender and various structural and attitudinal variables, using data collected in two surveys (1979 and 1995-1996) from random samples of land-grant agricultural scientists. The first set of hypotheses centers on the expectation that the resources and rewards of agricultural science are distributed unequally by gender. We find significant gender differences in scientists' postdoctor…
Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle
Ecological modernization as social theory
New Directions in Environmental Sociology
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
How do we know we have global environmental problems? Science and the globalization of environmental discourse
Science has a central role in shaping what count as environmental problems. This has been evident most recently in the success of planetary science and environmental activism in stimulating awareness and discussion of global environmental problems. We advance three propositions about the special relationship between environmental science and politics: (1) in the formulation of science, not just in its application, certain courses of action are fa…
Environmentalization: Origins, Processes, and Implications for Rural Social Change1
This paper seeks to go beyond the sui eneris conception of the increased role of 'green' forces and the concomitant environmentalization of institutional practices in the United States and elsewhere across the world. It is argued that these forces must be located in the transition from social-democratic to neo-conservative regimes of social regulation of economy and society that has occurred during the past 15 or so years of global economic stagn…
World Society, the Nation-State, and Environmental Protection: Comment on Frank, Hironaka, and Schofer
This article comments on the implications of Frank Hironaka and Schofer’s paper regarding world society nation-state and environmental protection. The arguments presented in their paper provide a noteworthy contribution to the understanding of states and environments. The paper documents that the global organizational-homogenization process is relevant to environmental protection institutions policies and practices. Moreover the authors acknowled…
Environmental sociology and global environmental change: A critical assessment
Arguing that the phenomenon of global environmental change has received inadequate attention within environmental sociology and that the predominant approach of environmental sociology to global change has been limited, this article suggests several new perspectives. Environmental sociology must give more attention to the social construction of environmental knowledge, by building on and transcending the debates within the sociology of science of…
From limits to growth to global change
The “new” internationalization of agriculture: A reformulation
Our research on the “new” internationalization of agriculture builds on analyses of the internationalization of capital and the New International Division of Labor, but reformulates “internationalization” as a contingent, political and economic process. We argue that shifts in the institutional structure of capitalism in the 1980s profoundly altered national policy options and agro-food markets. States, such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Domini…
The political economy of part-time farming
Some Reflections on Late Twentieth Century Agrarian Political Economy
The 'new rural sociology' arguably represented the most significant watershed in the development of rural sociology during the 1970s and 1980s. I argue, however, that the new rural sociology, especially its dominant traditions of Chayanovian and neo-Leninist Marxism, has now been almost entirely superseded as a theoretical position in agrarian political economy by the international food regimes, commodity chains/systems analysis, regulationist, a…
Marx, Weber, and development sociology: Beyond the impasse
Size of place and community attachment: A reconsideration
Environmental Politics: The Structuring of Partisan and Ideological Cleavages in Mass Environmental Attitudes
This paper explores the impacts of political party identification and political ideology on two dimensions of mass environmental beliefs—awareness of environmental problems and support for environmental reform. We argue that while the environmental movement's mobilization of public awareness of environmental problems was essentially non-partisan, more recent movement efforts to achieve environmental reforms have taken a discernible “reform libera…
The recombinant BGH controversy in the United States: Toward a new consumption politics of food
The land-grant system: A sociological perspective on value conflicts and ethical issues
Ever Since Hightower: The Politics of Agricultural Research Activism in the Molecular Age
Global Social Movement(s) at the Crossroads: Some Observations on the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement
This paper examines the major structural characteristics of the anti-corporate globalization movement, its key bases and antecedents, its relationship with other global social movements (GSMs) and the key challenges it faces in the post-9/11 period. We suggest that despite the potential of the anti-corporate globalization movement to usher in major social changes, the movement faces a number of major crossroads in terms of ideology, discursive ap…
New Directions in the Political Economy of Agriculture
Recent tendencies in the literature on the sociology and political economy of agriculture in advanced industrial societies are analyzed with respect to their adequacy for guiding future research and their implications for sociology at large. We argue that the emergent tradition of agrarian political economy, while it has been productive in many respects, has tended to have two limitations. First, agriculture has typically been reified by being co…
The Environmental and Post-Environmental Politics of Genetically Modified Crops and Foods
The movement against genetically modified (GM) crops/foods has become progressively ‘environmentalised’ in recent years, but making environmental risk the focus of the movement's critique of GM crops is probably, for activists, a strategic mistake, for the issue is not self-evidently simply an environmental one. When anti-GM activists, pro-GM interests, and policy makers refer to ‘GM crops and foods’, they are not always referring to the same thi…
Has Environmental Sociology Arrived
World Society, the Nation-State, and Environmental Protection
Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies
While environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources nominally focus on the same subject matters, in practice the literatures in the two subdisciplines have tended to be quite separate intellectual enterprises. Environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources have different origins, their practitioners tend to have distinctive institutional locations, their problematics are different, and their theoretical tendencies…
Ideology and agricultural technology in the late twentieth century: Biotechnology as symbol and substance
Agricultural research and farm structural change: Bovine growth hormone and beyond
Ideology and social indicators of the quality of life
Environmental Politics: The Structuring of Partisan and Ideological Cleavages in Mass Environmental Attitudes
This paper explores the impacts of political party identification and political ideology on two dimensions of mass environmental beliefs—awareness of environmental problems and support for environmental reform. We argue that while the environmental movement's mobilization of public awareness of environmental problems was essentially non-partisan, more recent movement efforts to achieve environmental reforms have taken a discernible “reform libera…
Ideology and social indicators of the quality of life
Social Class and Mass Environmental Beliefs: A Reconsideration
The previous literature on the socioeconomic correlates of environmental concern places great stress on the middle class being more supportive of environmental agendas than the working or lower socioeconomic class. We argue that certain methodological problems in this research and the theoretical implications of the proenvironmental middle-class generalization warrant an empirical reconsideration. We then find that social class indicators explain…
Social structure and energy efficiency: A preliminary cross-national analysis
State of the Nation III
Age and Environmental Concern: A Multivariate Analysis
Sources of Working Class Consciousness
This study, intended largely as a replication of the research reported by John C. Leggett in his Class, Race, and Labor, is a methodological contribution to the measurement of class consciousness among American workers, and an analysis of the independent variables that explain variation in the class consciousness measure. The data for this research were collected during 1974 in a statewide Wisconsin sample. A conceptual analysis of class consciou…
Size of place and community attachment: A reconsideration
The Sociology of the Growth/No‐growth Debate
This theoretical analysis focuses on the properties of conservative, liberal, and radical paradigms in social science and their application to the growth/no‐growth debate in environmental policy literature. We find conservatives working with an evolutionary model of society which suggests that environmental problems are imperfections to be remedied by science, technology, and the free market. Liberals recognize the benefits and costs of growth, a…
Agricultural Structure and Rural Ecology: Toward a Political Economy of Rural Development
Rural sociologists in North America and Western Europe have shown increasing interest in the issues of rural environmental quality, the structure of agriculture, and rural underdevelopment during the past decade. This paper seeks to demonstrate the profound connections among these phenomena, particularly in terms of how ongoing changes in agricultural structure have had major impacts on both the rural environment and the socioeconomic fabric of r…
Environment, energy, and society
Social Class and Agrarian Political Ideology: A Note on Determinants of Political Attitudes among Full- and Part-Time Farmers
Journal Article Social Class and Agrarian Political Ideology: A Note on Determinants of Political Attitudes Among Full- and Part-Time Farmers Get access Frederick H. Buttel, Frederick H. Buttel Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oscar W. Larson, III, Oscar W. Larson, III Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Craig K. Harris, Craig K. Har…
The political economy of part-time farming
Religion and Community-Oriented Attitudes
The relationship between religion and social integration has inspired sociological inquiry since the discipline originated. To address the issue empirically, this paper considers the effects of religious affiliation on two attitudinal measures of social integration. Derived from a survey of 548 non-institutionalized adult residents of Wisconsin, the analyses disclose that respondents without traditional Christian religious affiliations were less …
Ou Va Donc La Sociologie Rurale Nord-americaine
Cet article décrit ľevolution de la sociologie rurale aux Etats-Unis. Aprés avoir présente la naissance de cette discipline scientifiquc et son rôle moteur pour lc developpement de la sociologie générale nord-américaine, les auteurs essayent de décrire les événements àľorigine de la crise qu'elle a connue dans les années 60 et qui s'est poursuivie la décennie suivante. Par la suite, ils tentent de presenter les raisons du renouveau actuel que con…
Biotechnology and the Third World: Toward a Global Political-Economic Perspective
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Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State
The land-grant system: A sociological perspective on value conflicts and ethical issues
From Green Revolution to Biorevolution: Some Observations on the Changing Technological Bases of Economic Transformation in the Third World
Biotechnology: Prospects and Dilemmas for Third World Development
Agricultural research and farm structural change: Bovine growth hormone and beyond
Readers Column; Political Economy Of and In the Farm Crisis
The rural social sciences: An overview of research institutions, tools, and knowledge for addressing problems and issues
Extraordinary Insights on Ordinary Conflicts
Biotechnology, Plant Breeding, and Intellectual Property: Social and Ethical Dimensions
The past half dozen years have witnessed in many countries the mobilization of public interest groups that seek to reverse global trends toward proprietary protection of plants and plant parts. Numerous articles have appeared in the popular, trade, and science press concerning the benefits and costs of plant variety protection and plant patenting. Private sector seed and agricultural biotechnology companies have found it necessary to defend the s…
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