Abstract
The essay discusses the linkage between environmental sociology and social studies in science, technology and society in relation to injunctions between the scientific field and the social-political field, with regard to public struggle on the social construction of environmental problems. The essay is the result of theoretical research of authors conventionally divided into subfields of environmental sociology (Beck, Hannigan, Yarley) and sociology and studies of science and technology (Jasanoff, Knorr-Cetina, Collins), in an effort to synthesis of a new problematic which satisfies epistemological and political and cultural aspects related to structuring mechanisms both the scientific field as the political-cultural field, understood more as interrelated in order to conform what is provisionally called epistemic-political arena.
Keywords:
environmental problems; environmental sociology; social studies in science and technology; epistemic-political arena
