Definitional and Responsive Environmental Meanings
A Meadian Look at Landscapes and Drought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew J Weigert (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-91 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5914.00026 |
| OpenAlex | W1975312365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Current conceptual frameworks differ deeply on the meanings of human‐natural environment relations. One is a monist social constructionist frame: meaning is only in human definitions, and natural events are meaningless. The other offers dualist perspectives that locate meaning both in definitions and in realist indications of environmental events such as global environmental change. After discussing ‘landscape’ as a bridging concept, I suggest an ordering of the two perspectives through a metatheoretical distinction between definitional and responsive meanings with primacy in the response. Finally, I apply a metatheoretical schema based on the work of George H. Mead to meanings of natural environment implicated in a discussion of an official pronouncement, ‘The drought is over’
Epistemology · Hierarchy · Meaning (existential · Monism · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Schema (genetic algorithms · Sociology · Strict constructionism · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |