Approach to Environmental Social Work

Environmental sociology is typically defined as the sociological study of socio-environmental interactions, although this definition immediately presents perhaps insolvable problems of separating human cultures from the rest of the existing environment. Although the focus of the field is on the relationship between society and environment in general, environmental sociologists however place special emphasis on studying the social factors that cause environmental problems, the societal impacts and efforts to solve those the problems. Sociology has traditionally made a distinction between humans and nature. Thus, these are precisely the problems that humans coincidentally suffer from when interacted with their surroundings. Naturally, there are disadvantages we have to form human social structures, ignoring the larger society of the animal and vegetal realms by forming human social structures and ignoring the larger all-embracing society of the animal and vegetal realms. The book narrates environmental social work which would enliven and create an interest in historians, sociologists, anthropologists, students, researchers and layman alike.