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An Invitation to Environmental Sociology
by Michael Mayerfeld Bell
from Pine Forge Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Highly recommended 
I highly recommend this book as an introduction to environmental sociology. My students say they like Bell's writing style, as it is accessible and he makes confusing concepts easy to understand. I like the way he places individual choices and decisions in a social context so that students can see the influences of social structures (the built environment, our time constraints and our need for social status) on the choices and decisions of individuals. In the 2004 edition, there is also a section on... more info
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Thoughtful, Innovative, Compelling, Empassioned 
Michael Bell in this book takes an entirely new approach to introducing students to the field of environmental sociology. Yes there are other texts out there, and certainly they do a better job of reviewing all the research and thought that has gone before them. Some are much more encyclopedic, and end up reading like Sears Catalogues. However for its readablility and humanist treatment of this subject, Bell's stands alone.
Bell's humanities background shows in his wide-ranging examples from Asian,... more info
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Run screaming from this book 
I had to buy this book for a class which could be summarized as "evironmental sociology". Of course, we had reading assignments from this for class discussion. That's fine, but in this book Bell manages to produce an unreadable dialogue that jumps between narritive and dry facts like a leapfrog on speed.It may be a decent read for a casual reader who is actually interested in the subject matter and is not under any pressure to recite facts. However, the purpose of work such as this is to introduce the... more info
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