Sociology evolved as an academic response to the challenges of modernity, such as industrialization, urbanization, secularization, and a perceived process of enveloping rationalization.
His academic specialty was the study of social movements, sociology of culture and civil society, as well as in the social aspects of environmental protection.
This approach encompasses ideas and observations from an array of disciplines, notably history, sociology, demography, developmental psychology, biology, and economics.
He received an academic appointment in sociology, and taught classes on the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and gender and social movements.
