Social Nature is the core concept of a geographical work on the

social construction Social constructionism is a theory in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory which proposes that certain ideas about physical reality arise from collaborative consensus, instead of pure observation of said reality. The theory ...

nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. ...

, entitled ''Social nature: theory, practice and politics'', which has been published by

Noel Castree Noel Castree FAcSS (born 2 April 1968) is a British geographer whose research has focused on capitalism-environment relationships and, more recently, on the role that various experts play in discourses about global environmental change. He is cur ...

and Bruce Braun in 2001. It says that the concept of Social Nature was created by critical geographers and embraces the idea of a

socialize In sociology, socialization or socialisation (see spelling differences) is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those hel ...

. Critical geographers like

David Harvey David W. Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is a British-born Marxist economic geographer, podcaster and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his P ...

and Neil Smith "insisted that nature is social in three related ways":CASTREE, Noel and BRAUN, Bruce (Eds.), ''Social nature: theory, practice and politics'', Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp.10-15. *Knowledge "of nature is invariably inflected with the biases of the" knowers, *"Though knowledges of nature are social through and through, the social dimensions of nature are not reducible to knowledge alone", *Societies "''physically reconstitute'' nature, both intentionally and unintentionally", to the point of internalizing nature into social processes (particularly in advanced Western societies).

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