Social sustainability: a catchword between political pragmatism and social theory

Soziale Nachhaltigkeit: ein Schlagwort zwischen politischem Pragmatismus und soziologischer Theorie

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Griessler, Erich; Littig, Beate

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Abstract	The sustainability concepts of the 'Brundtland-Report' and the 'Rio documents' call for a combination of ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects of social development. This paper describes briefly several models of sustainability and discusses social sustainability as conceptualised in selected sustainability indicators. In an attempt to remedy the lack of sociological theory, the paper proposes a sustainability concept, which is based on the concepts of needs and work, as an activity to fulfil these needs and as the principal exchange process between society and nature. Moreover, this paper argues to recognize social sustainability as both a normative and analytical concept as well.
Keywords	sustainability; ecology; sustainable development; society; nature; model; social policy; indicator; gender-specific factors; environmental factors; economic development (single enterprise); social change; political factors; sociological theory; conception; labor
Classification	General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories; Ecology, Environment
Method	theory formation
Free Keywords	needs; sustainable work; gender; mixed work; ecological sustainability; economic sustainability
Document language	English
Publication Year	2005
Page/Pages	p. 65-79
Journal	International Journal for Sustainable Development, 8 (2005) 1/2
Status	Postprint; reviewed
Licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
Document Type	journal article

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