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389 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1970)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0389 and id is 1 raw text is: Thinking Social-Scientifically about Environmental Quality By SAMUEL Z. KLAUSNER * ABSTRACT: Technological intervention to improve the qual- ity of the environment is an immediate need. The current environmental crisis is rooted in the character of the society which develops and uses technology. The relation of society to its physical environment is governed by the society's defini- tions of its resources and the rules evolved for regulating social relations with respect to the environment. Fundamen- tal solutions to environmental problems must, therefore, in- clude social solutions. To stem deterioration of the quality of the environment will require an examination of those rules regulating the relation between individuals and the collective. Samuel Z. Klausner, Ed.D., Ph.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is Director of the Center for Research on the Acts of Man at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the City College of New York, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Union Theo- logical Seminary, and Columbia University, and is currently a member of the Depart- ment of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Psychiatry and Religion (1963) and the editor of The Quest for Self-Control (1964), The Study of Total Societies (1967), and Why Man Takes Chances (1968). His research on societal aspects of the environmental crisis is reported in Human Action in the Non- Human Environment (forthcoming). He is a member of the Panel on Noise Abatement of the Commerce Department's Technical Advisory Board and Chairman of the Com- mittee on Support of Dissertation Research in Recreation and Leisure of the National Academy of Sciences. * This article was prepared as part of the program of research on society and its physical environment of the Center for Research on the Acts of Man at the University of Pennsyl- vania. Dr. Albert E. Gollin generously offered suggestions on its style and thought. 1

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