Chapter 14
Sustainable Development, Sociologyand UK Higher Education
Matthew Smith, John Donnelly and Andrew Parker
Strategies to achieve sustainable development are situated in structural contexts, economies and societies in which individual and group interests often diverge. Their success depends on the efficacy of the intentional acts of human agents. In seeking answers to these issues of human agency and social structure we are necessarily drawn to the discipline of sociology (Redclift and Woodgate, 1994, p51).
Instead of sociological discourses being driven exclusively by disciplinary conventions and disputes, theorists should seriously engage the problems and language of argumentation of a public world of social and political conflict ...
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