ABSTRACT
Human embodiedness and embeddedness: from a dualistic to adialectical culture/nature relation
Transforming nature: the creation of our ecological niche
Human flourishing and the natural environment
Human categorisation of the environment: resources, nonresourcesand proscribed resources
Naturalism and social theory
Introduction
Having introduced some of the ways in which the environment has been conceptualised with some central strands of twentieth-century social thought, this chapter continues this exploration, but widens out the issue beyond the ‘environment’ (both natural and urban), to look at approaches to the study of the natural world and humans in relation to and a part of that world, and how natural sciences (such as biology, ecology and ethology) have influenced social theorising and/ or been used themselves as the basis for social theory.
