A Sociological Perspective on Sustainability

Sustainability has been most often referred to as that of agriculture and rural development without much look as to other fields of study that are core to this concept. Regularly, there is an impactive reference to … it is not sustainable unless it is social. Meaning there is no sustainability without society to practice it on. Therefore, it is beyond doubt that people and hence societies are at the centre of sustainability than environmental conservation and or agriculture and rural development. This research goes on to show and prove that sociology is at the centre of sustainability. However, societies are different from place to place, region to region and continent to continent, so does sustainability. Its origin being developed countries does not mean there has not been sustainability in developing countries. This may create different types of concepts of sustainability with different societies but the definitions remain the same. This study shows that sustainability exists in developing nations as much as it does in developed states yet at a different level and stage.