Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology.

Thomas Macias is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest (2006).

1. The Origins of a Socioecological Imagination 2. Efficient, Rational Plans and Unintended Socioecological Outcomes 3. The Nature of Nurture: A Lifetime of Socialization 4. Local Agriculture and the Multiplex Origins of Socioecological Change 5. Fetish, Rifts and Farce: Alienation from what we Make, Buy and Toss 6. Homophily and The Social Strictures of an Unequal Society 7. Social and Environmental Justice in a Diverse Society 8. Searching for Trust in a Risk-riddled Society 9. Unstable Structures and the Process of Socioecological Change 10. Strategies for Restructuring an Unsustainable Society 11. Socioecological Solutions from the Inside Out