Power - Social Sciences, Social Structure - General & Miscellaneous, Humanity - Relationship with Nature

Energy and Structure

Name: Energy and Structure
Author: Richard Newbold Adams
ISBN: 9780292720138

by Richard Newbold Adams

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Overview

Richard N. Adams argues that social power affects humanity's approach to ecological, economic, and political problems, directing people to seek solutions which are often deceptively shortsighted.

About the Author, Richard Newbold Adams

Richard Newbold Adams is Rapoport Centennial Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Sociology

The essay will be rewarding reading for students of social power irrespective of their disciplinary leaning. Most important, it integrates serious thinking about energy and social change, reaching some disquieting conclusions to which attention must be paid.