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When ecology and sociology meet: The contributions of Edward A. Ross
Author(s) -
Gross Matthias
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/jhbs.1095
Subject(s) - conceptualization , sociology , perspective (graphical) , ecology , social science , environmental ethics , natural (archaeology) , sociological imagination , key (lock) , epistemology , anthropology , philosophy , history , biology , archaeology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Edward A. Ross, a key figure in the early history of American sociology, developed a conceptualization of natural and social changes of the material environment that is virtually forgotten today. In this paper, these topics are discussed and located vis‐à‐vis Ross's intellectual contemporaries and their general take on the nature/society relationship. It is argued that ecological and sociological ideas in the early twentieth century influenced one another and, in the case of Ross, produced a perspective of social change that tried to include the dynamics of nature. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.