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When ecology and sociology meet: the contributions of Edward A. Ross
1Bielefeld's Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany. mgrosz@uni-bielefeld.de
Abstract:
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.
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