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On Hierarchy: Bookchin, Social Ecology, and the Potential for Egalitarianism

Strome, Ryan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1689013904596189

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2023, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Anthropology.
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) and his literary career have since received renewed interest and study, especially in regard to his theory of Social Ecology. Social Ecology’s foundational claim is that human social organization (i.e., hierarchy, egalitarianism) profoundly affects how humans relate to ecologies. Writing primarily during the 1970’s and 1980’s, Bookchin published over 20 titles. His work focused on large-scale environmental degradation and its relation to hierarchical human social organization across time. Bookchin’s primary goal was to devise a descriptive and prescriptive framework that could guide the construction of a “rational ecological society”: A society liberated from hierarchical relations and the resulting exploitation and domination of nature.Renewed public interest signals a vital opportunity to modernize and re-examine Social Ecology’s understanding of anthropology. An updated ethnographic record, and the contemporary understandings thereof, will allow for an appraisal of Bookchin’s ideas that will necessarily provide critique and/or validation. This thesis will serve as an initial attempt to elaborate on a number of interrelated subjects. Focus is placed on the potential of social organizations to incorporate an egalitarian ethos, and to what what extent hierarchy should be considered fundamental to human social organization.
Aldo Cimino (Advisor)
Michelle Bebber (Committee Member)
Susan Roxburgh (Committee Member)
Tiffany Taylor (Committee Member)
84 p.
Archaeology; Climate Change; Cultural Anthropology; Ecology; Social Research; Social Structure; Sustainability
Anthropology; Social Organization; Social Ecology; Hierarchy; Egalitarianism; Heterarchy; Reverse Dominance Hierarchy; Ecology, Climate Change

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  • Strome, R. (2023). On Hierarchy: Bookchin, Social Ecology, and the Potential for Egalitarianism [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1689013904596189

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Strome, Ryan. On Hierarchy: Bookchin, Social Ecology, and the Potential for Egalitarianism. 2023. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1689013904596189.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Strome, Ryan. "On Hierarchy: Bookchin, Social Ecology, and the Potential for Egalitarianism." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1689013904596189

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