Cultural Ecology: Recommended Reading


Barney, Gerald O. (study director).  1980.  The Global 2000 Report to the President, 3 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing office.

Berman, Morris.  2000.  The Twilight of American Culture.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Berry, Wendell.  1977. The Unsettling of America.  San Francisco: Sierra Club.

Bollier, David.  2002.  Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth. New York: Routledge.

Brown, Lester R. Nicholas Lenssen, and Hal Kane.  1995.  Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future 1995-1996.  The WorldWatch Institute.

Cohen, Mark.  1977.  The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Over Population and the Origins of Agriculture.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

Cole, H.S.D., et al., eds.  1973. Models of Doom: A Critique of "Limits to Growth." New York: Universe.

Demo, D., & Acock, A. C. 1993 "Family diversity and the division of domestic labor: how much have things really changed?" Family Relations, 42, 326-327.

Diamond, Jared.  1992.  The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.  New York: HarperCollins, Inc.

Diamond, Jared.  1999  Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies.  New York: WW Norton & Co.

Domhoff, G. William.  1967. Who Rules America?  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Durkheim, David Emile. 1933 [1893] The Division of Labor in Society. Translated by George Simpson. New York: The Free Press.

Dye, Thomas R.  1983. Who's Running America?  The Reagan Years.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Eisenstodt, Gale. 1993. 'Information power,' Forbes. Vol. 151 (June 21): 44-45.

Ellul, Jacques 1970 [1964] The Technological Society.  Translated by John Wilkinson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Elwell, Frank W.  1991.  The Evolution of the Future.  New York: Praeger Publishers.

Elwell, Frank W.  1999.  Industrializing America: Understanding Contemporary Society Through Classical Sociological Analysis.  New York: Praeger Publishers.

Elwell, Frank W.  2001.  A Commentary on Malthus' 1798 Essay on Population as Social Theory.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

Flannery, Tim F.  1994. The Future Eaters.  Port Melbourne: Reed Publishers.

Frank, Thomas.  2000.  One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy.  New York: Doubleday

Freund, Julien.  1969.  The Sociology of Max Weber.  New York: Vintage.

Gittleman, Maury and Mary Joyce. 1995. 'Earnings Mobility in the United States, 1967-91,' Monthly Labor Review. 118 (September): 3-13.

Goldschmidt, Walter. 1990. The Human Career: The Self in the Symbolic World. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.

Gutmann, Myron P.  1988.  Toward the Modern Economy: Early Industry in Europe 1500-1800. Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Halberstam, David. 1986. The Reckoning. New York: Avon Books.

Hardin, Garret.  1973.  Exploring New Ethics for Survival:  The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle. Baltimore: Penguin.

Harrington, Michael.  1976. The Twilight of Capitalism.  New York: Touchstone.

Harlow, Harry F. 1959. 'Love in infant monkeys,' Scientific American (June), pp. 2-8.

Harris, Marvin.  1968. The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture.  New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

Harris, Marvin. 1974.  Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture.  New York: Vintage.

Harris, Marvin.  1977.  Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures. New York: Vintage.

Harris, Marvin.  1979.  Cultural Materialism:  The Struggle for a Science of Culture.  New York: Random House.

Harris, Marvin.  1981.  America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture.  New York: Simon & Schuster.

Harris, Marvin.  1989.  Our Kind.  New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.

Harris, Marvin.  1998.  Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture.  Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press.

Harris, Marvin.  1999.  Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times.  Walnut Creek, CA: Altimira Press.

Heilbroner, Robert.  [1974] 1980. An Inquiry Into the Human Prospect, Updated and Reconsidered for the 1980s.  New York:  W.W. Norton.

Howard, Robert.  1985.  Brave New Workplace.  New York: Viking.

Hudson, Pat.  1992.  The Industrial Revolution.  London:  Edward Arnold.

Huxley, Aldous.  1959.  Brave New World Revisited.  New York: Bantam.

Kaplan, Robert D.  2000.  The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War.  New York: Random House

Kaub, George H.  1974. 'National Geographic, the doomsday machine,'  The Journal of Irreproducible Results 20, no. 3 (March): 22-23.

Kumar, Krishan.  1978.  Prophecy and Progress.  New York: Penguin.

Landis, David S.  1969.  The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. London: Cambridge University Press.

Lenski, Gerhard.  1966.  Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

Lenski, Gerhard , Patrick Nolan, and Jean Lenski.  1995.  Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

Marx, Karl. 1963.  Karl Marx: Early Writings.  Translated and edited by T.B. Bottomore. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. [1845] 1970. The German Ideology. Edited by C.J. Arthur.  New York: International Publishers.

McNeill, William H.  1993.  A History of the Human Community.  New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Meadows, Dennis, and Donella Meadows, eds.  1973.  Toward Global Equilibrium: Collected Papers.  Cambridge: Wright-Allen Press.

Meadows, Dennis, William W. Behren III, Donella Meadows, Roger F. Naill, Jorgen Randers, and Erich K.O. Zahn. 1974. Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World.  Cambridge: Wright-Allen Press.

Meadows, Donella, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William H. Behren III.  1972. The Limits of Growth.  New York:  Universe.

Menosky, Joseph A. 1984.  'Computer Worship,' Science 84 (May): 40-46.

Michels, Robert. [1915] 1962.  Political Parties.  Translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul. New York: The Free Press.

Milgram, Stanley. 1974. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. New York: Harper & Row, Inc.

Mills, C. Wright. 1951.  White Collar: The American Middle Classes.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Mills, C. Wright. 1956. The Power Elite.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Causes of World War Three. London: Secker & Warburg.

Mills, C. Wright.  1959.  The Sociological Imagination.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Naisbitt, John.  1982.  Megatrends.  New York: Warner.

Parenti, Michael.  1978. Power and the Powerless.  New York: St. Martin's.

Putnam, Robert D. 1995.  'Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital,' Current 373 (June): 3-9.

Reich, Robert B. 1991. The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Rauch, Johnathan. 1995. Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government. New York: Times Books.

Rifkin, Jeremy.  1980.  Entropy: A New World View.  New York: Bantam.

Rifkin, Jeremy.  1998.  The Biotech Century.  New York: Peguin Putnam Inc.

Ritzer, George. 1995. Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press.

Rose, Stephen J. 1996. 'The Truth About Social Mobility,' Challenge 39 (May): 4-8.

Schlosser, Eric.  2001.  Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Spencer, Herbert.  [1885] 1967. The Evolution of Society, Selections from Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology.  Edited by Robert L. Carneiro. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. [1835] 1956. Democracy in America.  Edited by Robert D. Meffner. New York:  New American Library.

Toeffler, Alvin.  1981.  The Third Wave.  New York:  Bantam.

Weber, Max.  1946.  From Max Weber.  Translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills.  New York: Galaxy.

Weber, Max. [1921] 1978.  Economy and Society.  Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich.  Berkley: University of California Press.

Weber, Max.  1904.  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Wilson, Edward O.  2002.  The Future of Life.  New York: Random House.

Winner, Langdon.  1984.  'Mythinformation in the high-ech era,'  IEEE Spectrum (June):  90-96.  Also at: http://www.eco-action.org/dt/mythin.html

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="Arial,Helvetica">Toeffler, Alvin.  1981.  The Third Wave.  New York:  Bantam.

Weber, Max.  1946.  From Max Weber.  Translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills.  New York: Galaxy.

Weber, Max. [1921] 1978.  Economy and Society.  Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich.  Berkley: University of California Press.

Weber, Max.  1904.  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Wilson, Edward O.  2002.  The