Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The thinking presented in Par-delà nature et culture invites sociology to take up the question of humans beings’ relations with nature. Sociology is perhaps better disposed to do this than anthropology given what is in fact its strong, spontaneous reluctance to refer to invariants thought of as defining what is specific to humanity. An effect of Descola’s book is to suggest the interest for sociology of taking up and further developing Durkheim’s thesis that humans perceive their relations with nature « on the image » of social relations.
Source: Revue Française de Sociologie
DOI: 10.3917/rfs.484.0795
Author: François Héran
Institution: Institut national d'études démographiques
Language: French
Topic: Emile Durkheim and Sociology
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2084796522