By Manuel González de Molina, Víctor M. Toledo
ISBN-10: 331906357X
ISBN-13: 9783319063577
ISBN-10: 3319063588
ISBN-13: 9783319063584
Over this final decade, the idea that of Social Metabolism has received status as a theoretical software for the mandatory research, to such an quantity that there are actually dozens of researchers, 1000s of articles and a number of other books that experience followed and use this idea. although, there's a good deal of sort when it comes to definitions and interpretations, in addition to diversified methodologies round this idea, which prevents the consolidation of a unified box of recent wisdom. the basic goal of the publication is to behavior a assessment of the prior and current utilization of the concept that of social metabolism, its origins and background, in addition to the most currents or colleges that exist round this idea. whilst, the experiences and discussions integrated are utilized by the authors as beginning issues to attract conclusions and suggest a conception of socio-ecological transformations.
The theoretical and methodological strategies of this publication contain a contrast of 2 different types of metabolic tactics: tangible and intangible; the research of the social metabolism at various scales (in area and time) and a thought of socio-ecological switch overcoming the only “systemic” or “cybernetic” nature of traditional ways, giving designated protagonism to collective action.
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Progress therefore materialized as abundance brought about by science and technology. This perspective explains the preponderance enjoyed by Economic History not only because it accounted the material advances made towards human progress in the form of technological achievements, but also because it did this by using Mathematics, the science most approaching Natural Sciences. Social History, second in importance, found its meaning in the corroboration of an evolutionary process towards evermore complex social models as an expression of the progressive social division of labor linked to economic growth and the material welfare of societies.
Before the anthropocentrism of our culture became established, and even in current oriental societies, nature was and is indissoluble from culture. Enough be to recall the nearly generalized organismic conceptions of cultures that through sacralization of space or resources, and the ritualization of main productive activities, attempt to have a harmonic relation with nature, among other reasons, because its survival as cultures depend on it. As rightly said by Hornborg et al. (2007), the interphase between the human and not-human spheres has always been an omnipresent theme for reflection and cosmological explanation, from the ancient written documents from Mesopotamia and China, to the myths and metaphors of contemporaneous indigenous people.
As a result, nearly twenty hybrid disciplines have arisen (Fig. 1), which can be seen as interdisciplinary modes of approaching reality based on the integration of the synthetic study of nature (Ecology), with different applications on the study of the social or human universe. Heterogeneity has been the main feature of this reciprocal fertilization, such that all attempts for considering these hybrid disciplines as fractions of a supposed metascience becomes premature, if not illusive. Nevertheless, interdisciplinarity requires at least the use of a common language.