Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience
The Social Construction of Environmental Problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2274562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerry Williams, Jerry L Williams (Stephen F. Austin State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 476-497 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1998.tb00481.x |
| OpenAlex | W2122665943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 56 |
Perhaps one of the most obvious yet difficult questions confronting sociologists concerned with large-scale environmental problems is an epistemological one: How do we know what we know about the state of the environment? This paper explores the realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems and finds both inadequate as currently formulated. A case is made for a phenomenological constructionism that moves beyond relativism and simple definitional constructionism by exploring how we actually experience the world. This approach recognizes the existence of a natural world independent of our constructions, yet suggests that our knowledge of it is always mediated, indirect, and pragmatically motivated
Constructionism · Environmental sociology · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology) · Relativism · Simple (philosophy) · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Strict constructionism · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · History · Philosophy · Risk Perception and Management
On the Importance of Environmental Claims-Making
Understanding Opinions
Las culturas del agua en la prensa española. Los marcos culturales en la comunicación sobre el Plan Hidrológico Nacional
Key Topics in environmental sociology, 1990–2014
Occupation and Social Complexity
Further Beyond the Durkheimian Problematic
What is the 'social construction of nature'? A typology and sympathetic critique
Natural and Epistemological Pragmatism
Sociological, Postmodern, and New Realism Perspectives in Social Constructionism
Charting a Discursive Field
On Humans and Environment
Radiation is Not New to Our Lives
Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem
The Processes of Social Construction in Talk
Communities at risk
Environment and society
Reconstruction in philosophy.
Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991
The construction of social reality
The Social Creation of Nature
The phenomenology of the social world
Metatheoretical foundations for post-normal risk
Public understanding of global warming
Definitions of conflict and the legitimation of resources
Sounding the Global Alarm
The media and the social construction of the environment
Making Sense of Reification
How could scientific facts be socially constructed
Naturework and the Taming of the Wild
The heated debate
A new world order. Grassroots movements for global change
The isolation of crime, law, and deviance from the core of sociology
Struggling with human exemptionalism
How do we know we have global environmental problems? Science and the globalization of environmental discourse
Constructing Social Problems
Where We Live, Work and Play
The principles of psychology
The social construction of reality
Invitation to Sociology
Myths of Nature
Realism and antirealism in social science
History and the Primacy of Knowing
The age of greenwashing∗
Arguments and Action in the Life of a Social Problem
Constructing the Public Good
The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem
Is There a Choice between 'Constructionism' and 'Objectivism
Ontological Gerrymandering
The Sociological Construction of Science without Nature
Social Problems Theory
Landscapes
The Rise and (Relative) Decline of Global Warming as a Social Problem
The Mass Media and the Social Construction of the Missing Children Problem
The Social Construction of Abducted Children as a Social Problem
The Rise and Fall of Social Problems
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |