Nature and Cultural Theory (PhD Qualifying Exam)
All This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
English - July 01, 2023 21:27 - 1 hour - 154 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSociety & Culture Science environment interview politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This is a long and boring answer to the first question on my PhD qualifying exams at Yale University from this past Spring. I used the new ElevenLabs AI to turn the answer into an audiobook quality thing. This was the question:
Your attempt to develop a new “Sociology of Nature” raises questions—both old and new—about the relationship between society and nature. How was this relationship thought about in classical sociology, and where does the study of this relationship stand today?