**Meet the editor**

Dr Dennis Erasga is Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology at the De La Salle University (DLSU), Manila, Philippines. He is a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow (Biography as Mirror of Society, 2006) and has published extensively on postmodern social theory, critical ethnography and environmental discourse. His "Rice-Based History of Environmental Discourse in the

Philippines, 1946-2005" will be published later in 2012. He obtained his PhD in Environmental Science from the University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Philippines and currently teaching graduate and undergraduate theory and sociology courses at the Behavioral Sciences Department, De La Salle University.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Dennis S. Erasga

Risto Kangas

Andrea Maurer

Le-Le Zou

Massimo Corsale

William R. Catton Jr.

Chapter 6 **What is Economic Sociology? 101**  João Carlos Graça

Chapter 2 **Analysing Social Structures 15**  Charles Crothers

Chapter 3 **The Nature-Society Controversy in France:** 

Florence Rudolf and Claire Grino

Chapter 4 **Contingency Theoretical Functionalism** 

Chapter 1 **Biopolitics: Biodiversity as Discourse of Claims 3** 

**Epistemological and Political Implications 41** 

Chapter 5 **Economic Sociology: Bringing Back Social Factors 77** 

Chapter 7 **A Meta-Analysis Framework and Its Application for** 

Chapter 8 **Can Sociology Help Us to Live a Better Life ?** 

Chapter 9 **Sociology's Neglect of Ecological Context 163** 

**and the Problem of Functional Differentiation 55** 

**Exploring the Driving Causes to Social Vulnerability 127** 

**A Phenomenological Approach to Clinical Sociology 143** 

**Part 1 Theories 1** 
