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- Title
What Kind of Ecologist Was Braudel? A Comment on Hudson.
- Authors
Sanderson, Stephen K.
- Abstract
The article comments on James R. Hudson's work "Braudel's Ecological Perspective," published in the 1987 issue of the journal "Sociological Forum." Hudson's makes an important contribution in calling the attention of sociologists to the work of the French Annales historian Fernand Braudel, as well as in suggesting some important parallels between that work and the theory of human ecology associated with Amos Hawley, a ecologist and his followers. The author agree with Hudson that Braudel is important and that sociologists can benefit from close study of his work. Author also agree that there are important similarities between Hawley's ecological perspective and many of Braudel's analyses. As Hudson points out, Braudel's treatment of the role of early capitalist towns, cities, and markets in the final work, the magisterial, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, closely resembles human ecological theory. Yet some serious problems with Hudson's argument cannot be overlooked. In the first instance, there are certain ways in which the kind of ecological perspective that Braudel employs in much of his work actually conflicts sharply with some of Hawley's pronouncements. Hudson's failure to see some major area of intellectual antagonism between Braudel and Hawley, his failure to take note of ecological perspective in the social sciences, casts a dark shadow over what is otherwise is a important contribution.
- Subjects
ECOLOGY; URBAN sociology; SOCIAL sciences; SOCIAL ecology; URBAN transportation; URBAN planning
- Publication
Sociological Forum, 1988, Vol 3, Issue 2, p277
- ISSN
0884-8971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01115294