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Ecological Habitus:Toward a Better Understanding of Socioecological Relations

Debbie V. S. Kasper

Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, USA, dkasper{at}sbc.edu

There is a clear need to better understand the interdependent relationships between people and the biophysical world. Social science research is essential for such efforts but is not yet widely viewed as relevant to ecological research. Impeding its advancement in this direction are the characteristics of a modern Western worldview exhibited by, and problematic for, much of social scientific research, especially emphases on mechanism, dualism, and prediction. I offer environmental behavior research as an area in which these are apparent. I discuss the need to better account for the relations and processes that characterize human social life and suggest an alternative approach for doing so. Drawing on complementary works in sociological theory, I develop the notion of ecological habitus and propose it as a practical tool for more adequately thinking about and studying socioecological phenomena. I conclude with brief speculation about the possible empirical uses of the ecological habitus concept.

Key Words: ecological habitus • socioecological • environmental behavior • theory

This version was published on September 1, 2009

Organization & Environment, Vol. 22, No. 3, 311-326 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1086026609343098
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