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Bedrous, Andrew. "The Environment as Lifeworld: Using Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action in the Environmental Discourse" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103491_index.html>

Bedrous, A. V. , 2006-08-10 "The Environment as Lifeworld: Using Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action in the Environmental Discourse" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103491_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper is intended to apply Jurgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action to current human-environment interaction. Habermas' theory argues that there has been an "uncoupling" of the "system" and the "lifeworld" through various processes including the colonization of the lifeworld by the system, what Habermas calls "juridification." Juridification is the process by which components of the lifeworld are increasingly being brought under the jurisdiction of the system. The system component is comprised of institutions and governing bodies, while the lifeworld component is composed of societal and individual-level attitudes, beliefs, and values. I argue that the natural environment is sacred using Durkheim's definition and that as such, the environment is more of a component of the lifeworld. Following from this, I argue that the system with its bureaucracies and institutions are operating in a manner that is uncooperative with the lifeworld. This is illustrated by the many different actions taken by government offices that operate in a manner that is clearly contradictory to the values and beliefs held by the citizenry within the lifeworld. Habermas argues that the uncoupling of the system and the lifeworld prevent us from achieving communicative action. I also make a few notable exceptions of system components that are not truly uncoupled from the lifeworld. Components of theory from Karl Marx, George Herbert Mead, and Talcott Parsons are also discussed.

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