Abstract
Claims-making as Social Science: a Review of Environmental Values in American Culture, by Willett Kempton, James S. Boster, and Jennifer A. Hartley; Cambridge, Mass : The MIT Press 1995. xii, 226 pp., 4 appendices. Reviewed by Thomas Greider, Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology University of Kentucky.
Highlights
If one is to accept the purpose of Professor Fawaz's travails, namely the construction of a solution for Lebanon's current problems from the lessons of the past, the final question is: are the lessons complete? the answer is no
Professor Fawaz contends that the lack of a strong central government to keep harmony between various communities is the ultimate cause of the conflicts
What she fails to acknowledge, is that such equilibrium can never be maintained for a long time, regardless of the central government, because the latter is in many ways a reflection of the mosaic of communities
Summary
Claims-making as Social Science: A Review of Environmental Values in American Culture, by Willett Kempton, James S. The scrutiny this description invites, lays bare a footing that is far too shaky to support the claims that Kempton and his colleagues seek to make either about the components and causes of popular environmental values in the U.S, or about the cultural models that exist across the American public. It is absolutely clear to me that some groups of people, including () many social scientists, are making claims about catastrophic, human-caused global environmental change, and are calling for all sorts of political and social action in the name of those claims.
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