Moving Ahead: Environmental Sociology’s Contribution to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research

摘要: This volume’s goal is to further scholarship within the intellectual tradition of environmental sociology and its inter- transdisciplinary connections. That it time for generally move away from purely internal debates has been pointed out by many sociologists in last 4 decades, who have lamented low impetus public forums policy issues uttered a general crisis discipline (see e.g., Gouldner 1970; Lemert 1995; Lopreato Crippens 2001; Clawson et al. 2007). It our contention that these critical assessments current state are also sociology’s potential trans- or at least interdisciplinary collaboration. And indeed, appears be unclear as what extend able deliver relevant knowledge solution pressing societal questions cooperation with other disciplines. The editors this volume believe sociology, unlike sociological subdisciplines, taken up challenge interdisciplinarity since quite while. In Europe, term transdisciplinarity most often used describe integrative forms research comprise different methods relating scientific extra-scientific practice problem-solving. way, topics streams European not mainly driven self-referential disciplinary theory building, but they inherently problem solution-oriented therefore necessarily transdisciplinary.